Morf v. Bingaman’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 407 · 1936
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (50 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2008 · most notably United States v. Carolene Products Co. (1938), SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros. (1938)
23 federal appellate · 79 state decisions — followed in 24 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 John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Graham v. Goodcell · People of the State of New York Ex Rel Albert Hatch v. Edward Reardon a · Clark v. Poor
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]epeal by implication is not favored, especially where the one act follows close upon the other, at the same session of the Legislature”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a forbidden burden on interstate commerce”
1 later decision 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.