Standard Computing Scale Co. v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 571 · 1919
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath (1951), Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan (1963)
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Home Telephone Telegraph Company v. City of Los Angeles · State of Washington Ex Rel Oregon Railroad Navigation Company v. H a Fairchild C S · Great Northern Railway Company v. State of Minnesota Ex Rel Railroad & Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota · Carolina Glass Company v. State of South Carolina No 12 Carolina Glass Company
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the protection of the Federal Constitution applies, whatever the form in which the legislative power of the State is exerted; that is, whether it be by a constitution, an act of the legislature, or an act of any subordinate instrumentality of the State exercising delegated legislative authority, like an ordinance of a municipality or an order of a commission.””
1 later decision 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.