Huron Portland Cement Company v. City of Detroit Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
233 federal appellate · 141 district · 429 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,268 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Miller v. California (1973), Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. (1970)
233 federal appellate · 141 district · 429 state decisions — followed in 35 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 42 U.S.C. § 1857 · 45 U.S.C. § 22
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · Simpson v. Shepard · Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same
Cited together with Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Hines v. Davidowitz · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan
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 1,268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] state may not exclude from its waters a ship operating under a federal license.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Legislation designed to free [the air] from pollution ... clearly falls within the exercise of even the most traditional concept of ... the police power.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““State regulation, based on the police power, which does not discriminate against interstate commerce or operate to disrupt its required uniformity, may constitutionally stand. (Citations).””
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.