James Clark Distilling Company v. Western Maryland Railway Company’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 311 · 1917
Citation profile
149 federal appellate · 42 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 540 later decisions (132 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same (1925), Craig v. Boren (1976)
149 federal appellate · 42 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Simpson v. Shepard · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Leisy v. Hardin · Lottery Case · Hoke & Economides v. United States
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 540 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * the question really is a complaint as to the want of uniform existence of things to which the act applies, and not to an absence of uniformity in the act itself.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, of any ... liquor of any kind, from one State ... into any other State which... is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In other words, the exceptional nature of the subject here regulated is the basis upon which the exceptional power exerted must rest and affords no ground for any fear that such power may be constitutionally extended to things which it may not, consistently with the guarantees of the Constitution, embrace.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.