Louis v. Boynton’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.2d 471 · 1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1978
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Smith v. Cahoon · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey · Buck v. Kuykendall
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * We are of the opinion that there is no rational basis for this classification bearing a reasonable and just relation to the objects of this legislation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“within a radius of twenty-five miles beyond the corporate limits of such city, or any village.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by the owner thereof or supplies for his own use in his own motor vehicle,”
1 later decision 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.