State of Rhode Island v. Palmer State of New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Beck v. Groe (1955)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 88 state decisions — followed in 36 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 · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Knowlton v. Moore · Purity Extract & Tonic Co. v. Lynch
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ’ ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the third place, when the second section is considered with these truths in mind it becomes clear that it simply manifests a like purpose to adjust, as far as possible, the exercise of the new powers cast upon Congress by the amendment to the dual system of government existing under the Constitution. In other words, dealing with the new prohibition created, by the Constitution, operating throughout the length and breadth of the United States, without reference to state lines or the distinctions between state and Federal power, and contemplating the exercise by 'Congress of -the duty cast upon it to make the prohibition efficacious, it was sought by the second section to unite national and state administrative agencies in giving effect to the amendment and the legislation of Congress enacted to make it completely operative. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““4. The prohibition of the manufacture, sale, transportation, importation and exportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, as embodied in the Eighteenth Amendment, is within the power to amend reserved by article 5 of the Constitution. “5. That amendment [the Eighteenth Amendment], by lawful proposal and ratification, has become part of the Constitution, and must be respected and given effect the same as other provisions of that instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthews v. White
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.