Department of Revenue v. Ass'n of Washington Stevedoring Companies’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 396 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Payne v. Tennessee (1991), Maryland v. Louisiana (1981)
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 260 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady · Southern Pac Co v. State of Arizona Sullivan · Brown v. Maryland · Coe v. Town of Errol
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 396 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States. . . .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interstate commerce must bear its fair share of the state tax burden.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No State shall, without the consent of the congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the congress.”
7 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.