Henneford v. Silas Mason Co.’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 577 · 1937
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 18 district · 502 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 787 later decisions (120 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. (1989), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
69 federal appellate · 18 district · 502 state decisions — followed in 42 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig, Inc. · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace
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 787 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The practical effect of a system thus conditioned is readily perceived. One of its effects must be that retail sellers in Washington will be helped to compete upon terms of equality with retail dealers in other states who are exempt from a sales tax or any corresponding burden. Another effect, or at least another tendency, must be to avoid the likelihood of a drain upon the revenues of the state, buyers being no longer tempted to place their orders in other states in the effort to escape payment of the tax on local sales.””
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A state, for many purposes, is to be reckoned as a self-contained unit, which may frame its own system of burdens and exemptions without heeding systems elsewhere.” [ 300 U.S. at 587 , 81 L. Ed. at 821 , 57 S.Ct. at 529 ].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“privilege of using within the state any article of tangible personal property,”
3 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.