California v. LaRue’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
437 federal appellate · 127 district · 576 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,671 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee (1982)
437 federal appellate · 127 district · 576 state decisions — followed in 41 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · United States v. O'Brien
Cited together with United States v. O'Brien · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc. · Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc. · New York State Liquor Authority v. Bellanca · Schad v. Borough of Mount Ephraim
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 1,671 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as the mode of expression moves from the printed page to the commission of public acts that may themselves violate valid penal statutes, the scope of permissible state regulations significantly increases.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The 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.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)hese decisions did not go so far as to hold or say that the Twenty-first Amendment supersedes all other provisions of the United States Constitution in the area of liquor regulations.”
8 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.