Wallace v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
253 U.S. 66 · 1920
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 27 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 261 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1999 · most notably Trainor v. Hernandez (1977), Aircraft & Diesel Equipment Corp. v. Hirsch (1947)
37 federal appellate · 27 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Shaffer v. Carter · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Arkansas · Fargo v. Hart · Union Pacific Railroad v. Board of County Commissioners
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 261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it can be seen in some plain and fairly intelligible way that it adds to the value of the road and the rights exercised in the State.” Wallace v. Hines, 253 U.S. 66, 69 , 40 S.Ct. 435, 436 , 64 L.Ed. 782 (1920) 2”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every corporation, joint-stock company or association, now or hereafter organized under the law of any other State, the United States or a foreign country, and engaged in business in the State during the previous calendar year, shall pay annually a special excise tax with respect to the carrying on or doing business in the State by such corporation, joint-stock company or association, equivalent to 50 cents for each $1,000.00 of the capital actually invested in the transaction of business in the State; provided, that in the case of a corporation engaged in business partly within and partly without the State, investment within the State shall' be held to mean that proportion of its entire stock and bond issues which" its business within the State bears to its total business within and without the State and where such business within the State is not otherwise more easily and certainly separable from such entire business within and without the State, business within the State shall be held to mean such proportion of the entire business within and without the State, as the property of such corporation within the State bears to its entire property employed in such business both within and without the State; provided, that in the case of a railroad, telephone, telegraph, car or freight" line, express company or other common carrier, or a gas, light, power or heating company, having lines that enter into, extend out of or across the State, property within the State shall be held t”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we ought not to leave the plaintiffs to a speculation upon what the State Court might say if an action at law were brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trainor v. Hernandez
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.