Scripto, Inc. v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 11 district · 267 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 326 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Whalen v. United States (1980), Fare v. Michael C. (1979)
8 federal appellate · 11 district · 267 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota · Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue · Miller Bros. v. Maryland · McLeod v. J. E. Dilworth 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 326 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Moreover, we cannot see, from a constitutional standpoint, ‘that it was important that the agent worked for several principals.’ * * * ””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... it was impossible for Miller to determine that goods sold for cash to a customer over the counter at its store in Delaware were to be used and enjoyed in Maryland.”
3 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.