Alward v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
282 U.S. 509 · 1931
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably James v. Dravo Contracting Co. (1937), Indian Motocycle Co. v. United States (1931)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox · Railroad Company v. Peniston · New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. v. State Board of Taxes & Assessments · Hopkins v. Southern California Telephone Co.
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinction between property employed in conducting a business which requires constant and unusual use of the highways and property not so employed is plain enough.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nor do we think petitioner’s property was entitled to exemption from state taxation because used in connection with the transportation of the mails. There was no tax upon the contract, for such carriage; the burden laid upon the property employed affected operations of the federal government only remotely.” (p. 514.)”
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.