York Mfg Co v. Colley’s Empirical Analysis

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37 federal appellate · 4 district · 128 state decisions

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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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[S]ince the ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316 , [ 4 L.Ed. 579 ], there has been no doubt that the interstate commerce power embraced that which is relevant or reasonably appropriate to the power granted, so also from such doctrine there can be no doubt that the right to make an interstate commerce contract includes in its very terms the right to incorporate into such contract provisions which are relevant and appropriate to the contract made. The only possible question open therefore is, was the particular provision of the contract for the service of an engineer to assemble and erect the machinery in question at the point of destination and to practically test its efficiency before complete delivery relevant and appropriate to the interstate sale of the machinery? When the controversy is thus brought in last analysis to this issue there would seem to be no room for any but an affirmative answer. Generically this must be unless it can be said that an agreement to direct the assembling and supervision of machinery whose intrinsic value largely depends upon its being united and made operative as a whole is not appropriate to its sale. The consequence of such a ruling if made in this case would be particularly emphasized by a consideration of the functions of the machinery composing the plant which was sold, of its complexity, of the necessity of its aggregation and unison with mechanical skill and precision in order that the result of the contract of sale— the ice p”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 3 Utah 2d 164 - Riley Stoker Corporation v. State Tax Commission · Advance-Rumely Thresher Co., Inc. v. Stohl

2. “over and above its inherent and intrinsic relation to the subject-matter of the interstate commerce”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 3 Utah 2d 164 - Riley Stoker Corporation v. State Tax Commission · Contractors Inc v. Aj Taft Coal Company Inc Aj Taft Coal Company Inc

3. ““In the first place the Waycross Case eon cerned merely the right of the city of Waycross to collect a charge against a person who was carrying on a business of erecting lightning rods as the agent of one who had sold the rods in another State and shipped them to Waycross under an agreement after their arrival to erect them. The ease turned exclusively upon the nature and character of the business of erecting lightning rods and the relevant or appropriate relation to interstate commerce of a stipulation in an interstate contract of sale of such rods providing for their erection when delivery under the sale was made. As it was determined that the business of erecting lightning rods bore no relevant or appropriate relation to the contract made for tbe sale of such rods, it was decided that the contract for the erection of the rods did not lose its local character simply because it was made a part of an interstate commerce contract for the sale of the rods any more than would a contract for materials with which to build a house cause the building of the house to be a transaction of interstate commerce and not local business.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Western Gas Construction Co. v. Commonwealth