McCready v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 391 · 1876
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 48 district · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 348 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911), Graham v. Richardson (1971)
28 federal appellate · 48 district · 136 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Welton v. The State of Missouri · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · Isaac Smith Owner of the Sloop Volant v. The State of Maryland · Smith v. . Levinus
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 348 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In like maimer, the states own tbe tide waters themselves, and the fish in them, so far as they are capable of ownership while running. For this purpose the state represents its people, and the ownership is that of the people in their united sovereignty.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Leisy v. Hardin · Toomer v. Witsell“The Congress shall have the power ... to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carlson v. State
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.