Kern-Limerick, Inc. v. Scurlock’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
118 federal appellate · 44 district · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 451 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Napue v. People of the State of Illinois (1959), Hancock v. Train (1976)
118 federal appellate · 44 district · 134 state decisions — followed in 28 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 831L · 41 U.S.C. § 151
Relies on Catlin v. United States · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · United States v. Allegheny County Pa · James v. Dravo Contracting Co.
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 451 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of sovereign immunity is so embedded in constitutional history and practice that this Court cannot subject the Government or its official agencies to state taxation without a clear congressional mandate.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he Contractor shall act as the purchasing agent of the Government in effecting such procurement.’ ” In Western Union Tel. Co. v. United States, 66 Ct.Cl. 38 , 1928 WL 3062 (1928), the construction contract named the prime contractor as the”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“decide[s] for itself facts or constructions upon which federal constitutional issues rest”
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.