Minnesota v. National Tea Co.’s Empirical Analysis
309 U.S. 551 · 1940
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 6 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions (111 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Brady v. State of Maryland (1963), Michigan v. Long (1983)
58 federal appellate · 6 district · 104 state decisions — followed in 22 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 State Board of Tax Com'rs of Indiana v. Jackson · Fox v. Standard Oil Co. · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Grosjean · Patterson v. Alabama · Louis Liggett Co v. Lee
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that state courts be left free and unfettered by us in interpreting their state constitutions. But it is equally important that ambiguous or obscure adjudications by state courts do not stand as barriers to a determination by this Court of the validity under the federal constitution of state action.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'there is considerable uncertainty as to the precise grounds for the [state court's] decision.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the[ ] provisions of the Federal and State Constitutions impose identical restrictions upon the legislative power of the state in respect to classification for purposes of taxation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Michigan v. Long
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.