Heyman v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 178 · 1915
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1989 · most notably Dawson v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. (1921), Nelson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1941)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 12 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Munn v. Illinois · Savage v. Jones · Hooper v. People of State of California · Tennessee v. Davis · Williams v. Fears
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * substance, and not form, controls in determining whether a particular transaction is one of interstate commerce, and hence the mere method of delivery is a negligible circumstance if, in substantial effect, the transaction under the facts of a given case is interstate commerce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““At this late date it is not necessary to cite cases to show that the right to engage in interstate commerce is not the gift of a state, and that it cannot be regulated or restrained by a state, or that a state cannot exclude from its limits a corporation engaged in such commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right to engage in interstate commerce is not the gift of a state; it cannot be regulated or restrained by a state, nor can a state exclude from its limits a corporation engaged in such commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.