Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company v. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
241 federal appellate · 52 district · 310 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 919 later decisions (80 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith (1990)
241 federal appellate · 52 district · 310 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. O'Brien · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button
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 919 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] power to tax differentially, as opposed to a power to tax generally, gives a government a powerful weapon against the taxpayer selected.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[i]llicit legislative intent is not the sine qua non of a violation of the First Amendment.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is beyond dispute that the States and the Federal Government can subject newspapers to generally applicable economic regulations without creating constitutional problems.”
12 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.