Todok v. Union State Bank’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 449 · 1930
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), Guaranty Trust Co of New York v. United States (1938)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
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 Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Geofroy v. Riggs · Hauenstein v. Lynham · William Tucker v. Leo Alexandroff · Nielsen v. Johnson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While treaties, in safeguarding important rights in the interest of reciprocal beneficial relations, may by their express terms afford a measure of protection to aliens which citizens of one or both of the parties may not be able to demand against their own government, the general purpose of treaties of amity and commerce is to avoid injurious discrimination in either country against the citizens of the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hines v. Davidowitz“the supreme Law of the Land . . ., any Thing in the . . . Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding,”
1 later decision 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.