Surplus Trading Co. v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 647 · 1930
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 41 district · 220 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 474 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably McClanahan v. State Tax Commission of Arizona (1973), Washington v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation (1980)
81 federal appellate · 41 district · 220 state decisions — followed in 32 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 Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Bromley v. McCaughn · United States v. Unzeuta · Commonwealth v. Clary
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 474 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, * * * and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; * * * ””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such ownership and use without more do not withdraw the lands from the jurisdiction of the state,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ The question is not an open one. It long has been settled that where lands for such a purpose are purchased by the United States with the consent of the state legislature the jurisdiction theretofore residing in the State passes, in virtue of the constitutional provision, to the United States, thereby making the jurisdiction of the latter the sole jurisdiction. ’ ’”
8 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.