Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
118 federal appellate · 36 district · 1,691 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,092 later decisions (133 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Payne v. Tennessee (1991), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
118 federal appellate · 36 district · 1,691 state decisions — followed in 49 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
Relies on Wisconsin v. J. C. Penney Co. · Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. · Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota · Western Live Stock v. Bureau of Revenue
Cited together with Quill Corporation v. North Dakota Heitkamp · Goldberg v. Sweet · Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana · Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Jefferson Lines, Inc. · Container Corp. of America v. Franchise Tax Board
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 2,092 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is applied to an activity with a substantial nexus with the taxing State, is fairly apportioned, does not discriminate against interstate commerce, and is fairly related to the services provided by the State.”
84 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fairly related to the services provided by the State.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“'has no relationship to economic realities.'”
6 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.