Polk v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 640 So. 2d 237 - City of New Orleans v. Board of Com'rs (1994), La. Paddlewheels v. La. Riverboat Gaming (1994)
3 federal appellate · 71 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 541 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 47 U.S.C. § 396
Relies on Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota · Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Kotch v. Board of River Port Pilot Commissioners · United States v. Jacobs · Bokum Resources Corp. v. Long Island Lighting Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Gambling shall be defined by and suppressed by the legislature.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defining and prescribing means of suppression are left to the state Legislature and the legislative determination in this regard constitutes an appropriate exercise of police power for the protection of the public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“After considering its powers and functions, as well as its interrelationship with the state in many areas, we find that the Casino Corporation is an instrumentality of the state and is subject to the provisions of the civil service system. The Casino Corporation does not enjoy an existence separate from the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.