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53 U.S. 299 · 1851
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 65 district · 195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 930 later decisions (261 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission (1977), United States v. Lopez (1995)
137 federal appellate · 65 district · 195 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Brown v. Maryland · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 930 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever subjects of this [the commercial] power are in their nature national, or admit only of one uniform system, or plan of regulation, may justly be said to be of such a nature as to require exclusive legislation by Congress.”
2 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.