Crosby Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts v. National Foreign Trade Council’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
409 federal appellate · 216 district · 273 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,623 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2026 · most notably Wyeth v. Levine (2009), At&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (2011)
409 federal appellate · 216 district · 273 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 19 U.S.C. § 3512 · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Hines v. Davidowitz · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Gibbons v. Ogden · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
Cited together with Hines v. Davidowitz · Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · Wyeth v. Levine · English v. General Electric Co. · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp.
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 1,623 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What is a sufficient obstacle is a matter of judgment, to be informed by examining the federal statute as a whole and identifying its purpose and intended effects.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]ven without an express provision for preemption, we have found state law to be preempted by Congressional legislation in at least two circumstances,”
13 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.