Graves v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 393 · 1936
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 14 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004 · most notably Smith v. Allwright (1944), United States v. Allegheny County Pa (1944)
21 federal appellate · 14 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Brown v. Maryland · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace · Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Dawson v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co. · Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The validity of the tax is to be determined by the practical effect of enforcement. To apply any other test of constitutionality would be to treat ‘a prohibition, which is general, as if it were confined to a particular mode of doing the forbidden thing.’ *. * * ‘It is immaterial that the seller and not the purchaser is required to report and make payment to the State. * * * The amount of money claimed by the State rises and falls precisely as does the quantity of gasoline so secured by the government. It depends immediately upon the number of gallons.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(r)esort may be had to equity . . . to avoid the multiplicity of suits . . . .”
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.