State v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1950
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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 Hill v. Wallace · Southern Railway Co. v. Reid · Ware & Leland v. Mobile County · Hurd v. . Taylor · Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Bausley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think the purpose of Congress and the effect of the act was not to destroy the police power of the state in such matters, nor to annul the Missouri statute, but to restrict its operations. We accordingly hold, until federal authority declares otherwise, that the effect of the Grain Futures Act was to restrict the operation of state laws, like our section 3574, so as to make them inapplicable to-transactions coming within the terms of the-Grain Futures Act, conducted on a ‘contract market’ according to the rules prescribed by that market.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all transactions made by us for your account contemplate the actual receipt and delivery of the property and payment there;* for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“render regulation imperative for the protection of such commence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.