Clyde Mallory Lines v. State of Alabama State Docks Commission’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 261 · 1935
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 12 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1943), SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938)
30 federal appellate · 12 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Simpson v. Shepard · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Savage v. Jones
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all taxes and duties regardless of their name or form, and even though not measured by the tonnage of the vessel, which operate to impose a charge for the privilege of entering, trading in, or lying in a port.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But it does not extend to charges made by state authority, even though graduated according to tonnage, for services rendered to and enjoyed by the vessel, such as pilotage, Cooley v. Board of Wardens, supra, or wharfage, Keokuk Northern Line Packet Co. v. Keokuk, supra; Northwestern Union Packet Co. v. St. Louis, 100 U. S. 423 , 25 L. Ed. 688 ; Cincinnati, P. B. S. & P. Packet Co. v. Catlettsburg, 105 U. S. 559 , 26 L. Ed. 1169 ; Parkersburg & O. River Transportation Co. v. Parkersburg, 107 U. S. 691 , 2 S. Ct. 732 , 27 L. Ed. 584 ; Ouachita & M. River Packet Co. v. Aiken, 121 U. S. 444 , 7 S. Ct. 907 , 30 L. Ed. 976 , or charges for the use of locks on a navigable river, Huse v. Glover, supra, or fees for medical inspection, Morgan’s Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co. v. Board of Health, 118 U. S. 455 , 6 S. Ct. 1114 , 30 L. Ed. 237 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not any the less a service beneficial to appellant because its vessels have not been given any special assistance. The benefits which flow from the enforcement of regulations, such as the present, to protect and facilitate traffic in a busy harbor inure to all who enter it.”
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.