Baltimore Co v. Burtch’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 540 · 1924
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. v. Calvert (1954), Puget Sound Stevedoring Co v. Tax Commission of State of Washington (1937)
39 federal appellate · 77 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Newcomb v. Boston Protective Department · Haluptzok v. Great Northern Railway Co. · Moran v. Dickinson
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is too plain to require discussion that the loading or unloading of an interstate shipment by the employees of a carrier is so closely related to interstate transportation as to be practically a part of it.””
2 later decisions 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.