Toomer v. Witsell’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 385 · 1948
Citation profile
297 federal appellate · 188 district · 379 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,321 later decisions (132 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. (1970), Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
297 federal appellate · 188 district · 379 state decisions — followed in 36 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 William Truax v. Mike Raich · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · Paul v. Virginia · Coe v. Town of Errol
Cited together with Baldwin v. Fish and Game Comm'n of Mont. · Hicklin v. Orbeck · Supreme Court of NH v. Piper · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 1,321 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was designed to insure to a citizen of State A who ventures into State B the same privileges which the citizens of State B enjoy.”
74 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute a peculiar source of the evil at which the statute is aimed.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a fiction expressive in legal shorthand of the importance to its people that a State have power to preserve and regulate the exploitation of an important resource.”
21 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.