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250 U.S. 525 · 1919

Citation profile

344
cited by 344 later decisions
80
cited 80 times by the Supreme Court
31
states following
September 2023
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 17 district · 175 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 344 later decisions (80 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939), Snowden v. Hughes (1944)

29 federal appellate · 17 district · 175 state decisions — followed in 31 states

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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 Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Paul v. Virginia · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Charles Cotting v. A a Godard

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

  1. “And inequalities that result not from hostile discrimination, but occasionally and incidentally in the application of a system that is not arbitrary in its classification, are not sufficient to defeat the law.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Colgate v. Harvey · Binney v. Long
  2. “in no just sense a tax on the foreign property.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re Estate of Lund · Rigby v. Clayton
  3. “The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Canadian Northern Railway Co. v. Eggen · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization

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.