Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Thompson v. County of Franklin (1994), United States v. State Tax Commission (1973)
62 federal appellate · 6 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 16 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 4 U.S.C. § 104
Relies on United States v. Allegheny County Pa · James v. Dravo Contracting Co. · Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Paul v. United States · Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Congress shall have Power ... To exercise exclusive Legislation 2 in all Cases whatsoever ... over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings 3 ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen Congress has wished to allow a State to exercise jurisdiction to levy certain taxes within a federal enclave it has specifically so stated, as in the Buck Act. 4 U.S.C. Secs. 104-110.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the United States acquired exclusive jurisdiction when the land was ceded to it with consent of the State (except for the State’s express reservation as to civil and criminal process) just as if the United States had acquired its title by negotiation and payment of a money consideration.” 376 U.S. at 372 , 84 S.Ct. at 859 .”
1 later decision 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.