Hostetter v. Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 78 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 611 later decisions (71 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Craig v. Boren (1976), Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. (1970)
128 federal appellate · 78 district · 105 state decisions — followed in 23 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 19 U.S.C. § 1311 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 27 U.S.C. § 121 (Wilson Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman · Louisiana Power Light Company v. City of Thibodaux
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 611 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Both the Twenty-first Amendment and the Commerce Clause are parts of the same Constitution. Like other provisions of the Constitution, each must be considered in the light of the other, and in the context of the issues and interests at stake in any concrete case.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'when [the state] restricts the importation of intoxicants destined for use, distribution, or consumption within its borders,'”
5 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.