Power Mfg Co v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 490 · 1927
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 36 district · 226 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 444 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), Western and Southern Life Insurance Company v. State Board of Equalization of California (1981)
60 federal appellate · 36 district · 226 state decisions — followed in 31 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Smyth v. Ames · Truax v. Corrigan · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad Commission
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 444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The clause in the Fourteenth Amendment forbidding a state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws is a pledge of the protection of equal laws.” ■”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * A foreign corporation merely doing business in the state and having its works elsewhere will be more or less inconvenienced by being sued anywhere away from its headquarters, but the difference to it between one county and another is likely to be less than it will be to a corporation having its headquarters in the state.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a foreign corporation by seeking and obtaining permission to do business in a State does not thereby become obligated to comply with or estopped from objecting to any provision in the state statutes which is in conflict with the Constitution of the United States.”
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.