Department of Revenue v. James B. Beam Distilling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 12 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Craig v. Boren (1976), California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc. (1980)
26 federal appellate · 12 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 13 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 27 U.S.C. § 121 (Wilson Act)
Relies on Brown v. Maryland · Leisy v. Hardin · Fallen v. United States · Hostetter v. Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. · State Board of Equalization v. Young's Market 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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“destined for distribution, use, or consumption within its borders.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The tax here in question is clearly of a kind prohibited by the Export-Import Clause ... as this Court stated almost a century ago . . . ‘the goods imported do not lose their character as imports . . . until they have passed from the control of the importer or been broken up by him from their original cases.’ ” 377 U.S. at 344 , 84 S.Ct. at 1248 (Quoting Low v. Austin, 13 Wall. 29 , 20 L.Ed. 517 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection Laws.” (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.