McCormick & Co. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 131 · 1932
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2005 · most notably United States v. Carolene Products Co. (1938), United States v. Darby (1941)
18 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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 United States v. Lanza · Hebert v. State of Louisiana · Kidd v. Pearson · James Clark Distilling Company v. Western Maryland Railway Company · Purity Extract & Tonic Co. v. Lynch
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was to prevent the immunity characteristic of interstate commerce from being used to permit the receipt of liquor through such commerce in States contrary to their laws,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Georgia v. Wenger
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.