Ohio v. Helvering’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 360 · 1934
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 14 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 366 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989), Quern v. Jordan (1979)
72 federal appellate · 14 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 25 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Hill v. Wallace · Ex parte Bakelite Corp. · South Carolina v. United States · Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
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 366 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a state chooses to go into the business of buying and selling commodities, its right to do so may be conceded so far as the Federal Constitution is concerned; but the exercise of the right is not the performance of a governmental function . . . . When a state enters the market place seeking customers it divests itself of its Quasi sovereignty Pro tanto, and takes on the character of a trader . . . .”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“includes a state or the United States depends upon the connection in which the word is found. p. 370, 54 S.Ct. p. 727. In Georgia v. Evans, et al., 1942, 316 U.S. 159 , 62 S.Ct. 972 , 86 L.Ed. 1346 , the Court held that a State is a”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“becomes a dealer in intoxicating liquors,”
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.