McLeod v. J. E. Dilworth Co.’s Empirical Analysis
322 U.S. 327 · 1944
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 304 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 472 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Mescalero Apache Tribe v. Jones (1973)
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 304 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co. · Henneford v. Silas Mason Co. · McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. · Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio Railway Company v. State of Texas
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 472 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he very purpose of the Commerce Clause was to create an area of free trade among the several States.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whatever might be the fate of such a tax were it before us, the not too short answer is that Arkansas has chosen not to impose such a use tax, as its Supreme Court so emphatically found.””
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.