Brown v. Maryland’s Empirical Analysis
25 U.S. 419 · 1827
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 61 district · 361 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,065 later decisions (222 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), United States v. Lopez (1995)
79 federal appellate · 61 district · 361 state decisions — followed in 46 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gibbons v. Ogden · Arnold v. The United States · The Nereide
Cited together with Gibbons v. Ogden · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Welton v. The State of Missouri · Leisy v. Hardin · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 1,065 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘•It is sufficient for the present to say, generally, that, when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become subject to the taxing power of the state.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage““No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports * * * except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““AH must perceive that a tax oil the sale of an article, imported only for sale, is a tax on the article itself.””
6 later decisions 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.