Paul v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 168 · 1868
Citation profile
177 federal appellate · 67 district · 317 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,098 later decisions (216 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
177 federal appellate · 67 district · 317 state decisions — followed in 45 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 Bank of the United States v. Deveaux · The Hope Insurance Company of Providence v. Boardman
Cited together with United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Ass'n · Toomer v. Witsell · Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc. · Hooper v. People of State of California · Prudential Ins Co v. Benjamin
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 1,098 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inhibits discriminating legislation against [citizens of other States and] gives them the right of free ingress into other States, and egress from them”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i)ssuing a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce.”
15 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.