Hughes v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
381 federal appellate · 191 district · 330 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,493 later decisions (101 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Payne v. Tennessee (1991), Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. (1981)
381 federal appellate · 191 district · 330 state decisions — followed in 37 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 Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Parker v. Brown
Cited together with Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · Maine v. Taylor · Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore. · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission
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 1,493 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.”
135 later decisions quote this exact passage“At a minimum such facial discrimination invokes the strictest scrutiny of any purported legitimate local purpose and of the absence of nondiscriminatory alternatives.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the evil of protectionism can reside in legislative means as well as legislative ends.”
10 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.