Real Silk Hosiery Mills v. City of Portland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 federal appellate · 27 district · 107 state decisions

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

1. ““ ‘The negotiation of sales of goods which are in another state, for the purpose of introducing them into the state in which the negotiation is made, is interstate commerce.’ Manifestly, no-license fee could have been required of appel lant’s solicitors if they had travelled at its expense and received their compensation by direct remittances from it. And we are unable to see that the burden on interstate commerce is different or less because they are paid through retention of advance partial payments made under definite contracts negotiated by them. Nor can we accept the theory that an expressed purpose to prevent possible frauds is enough to justify legislation which really interferes with the free flow of legitimate interstate commerce.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCarter v. City of Florence · Myers v. City of Miami

2. ““The negotiation of the sale of goods which are in another .state for the purpose of introducing them into the state in which the negotiation is made is interstate commerce.” Real Silk Hosiery Mills v. City of Portland, 268 U.S. 326, 45 S.Ct. 525 , 69 L.Ed. 982 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Olan Mills, Inc. of Ohio v. City of Barre

3. “Considering former opinions of this Court we cannot doubt that the ordinance materially burdens interstate commerce and conflicts with the commerce clause. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Myers v. City of Miami