State v. Towery’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1974 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Giant of Maryland, Inc. v. State's Attorney (1973)
2 district · 29 state decisions
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 Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Atchison Co v. Matthews · City of Springfield v. Smith · State v. Trantham · City of Mt. Vernon v. Julian
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Legislative bodies may distinguish, select, and classify objects of legislation. It suffices if the classification is practical. (Citations omitted.) They may prescribe different regulations for different classes, and discrimination as between classes is not such as to invalidate the legislative enactment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It would seem that the reasoning of the Illinois Court ignores the right of a municipality in adopting a Sunday closing ordinance to discriminate as between classes, State v. Trantham, 230 N.C. 641 , 55 S.E.2d 198 , but instead makes the question of competition or the right generally to conduct a business the determinative factor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kirk v. Olgiati“The one requirement is that the ordinance must affect all persons similarly situated or engaged in the same business without discrimination.”
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.