George Bush Sons Co v. Maloy’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 317 · 1925
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 43 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond (1949), Stephenson v. Binford (1932)
31 federal appellate · 43 district · 73 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Simpson v. Shepard · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Buck v. Kuykendall
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Federal aid legislation is of significance, not because of the. aid given by the United States for the construction of particular highways, but because those acts make clear the purpose of Congress that state highways shall be open to interstate commerce.””
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.