Prudential Ins Co v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 408 · 1946
Citation profile
242 federal appellate · 76 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 835 later decisions (141 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Shapiro v. Thompson (1969), Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. (1947)
242 federal appellate · 76 district · 130 state decisions — followed in 26 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Gibbons v. Ogden · Wickard v. Filburn · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
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 835 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the continued regulation and taxation by the several States of the business of insurance is in the public interest.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Obviously Congress' purpose was broadly to give support to the existing and future state systems for regulating and taxing the business of insurance.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * it clearly put the full weight of its power behind existing and future state legislation to sustain it from any attack under the commerce clause to whatever extent this may be done with the force of that power behind it, subject only to the exceptions expressly provided for.”
4 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.