Reeves, Inc. v. Stake’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
201 federal appellate · 97 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 692 later decisions (70 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk (1982), College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board (1999)
201 federal appellate · 97 district · 125 state decisions — followed in 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedReeves, Inc. v. Kelley (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Weinstein v. Bradford · Gibbons v. Ogden · National League of Cities v. Usery · United States v. Colgate & 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 692 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no indication of a constitutional plan to limit the ability of the States themselves to operate freely in the free market.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage“limits benefits generated by [that] state program to those who fund the state treasury and whom the State was created to serve.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[c]ement is not a natural resource, like coal, timber, wild game, or minerals. It is the end product of a complex process whereby a costly physical plant and human labor act on raw materials. South Dakota has not sought to limit access to the State’s limestone or other materials used to make cement_ Moreover, petitioner has not suggested that South Dakota possesses unique access to the materials needed to produce cement. Whatever limits might exist on a State’s ability to invoke the Alexandria Scrap exemption to hoard resources which by happenstance are found there, those limits do not apply here.”
8 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.