Aldens, Inc. v. LaFollette’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 745 · 1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Aldens, Inc. v. Miller (1979), 34 Cal. 3d 839 - Illinois Commercial Men's Ass'n v. State Board of Equalization (1983)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Whalen v. Roe
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he connection between a state and the regulated person must be of a more substantial character than the 'minimum contacts' needed to support judicial process running against a person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he power to tax is a dominant power over commerce .... [a]ttempts at such taxation have always been more carefully scrutinized and more consistently resisted than police power regulations of aspects of [interstate] commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[So] long as the interstate trader’s conduct has a “connection in fact” with a state producing an effect within a state, the interstate character of his conduct is only an element of the Pike interest-balancing analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silver v. Woolf
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.