Cook v. Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 566 · 1878
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (68 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1997 · most notably Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. (1911), James v. Dravo Contracting Co. (1937)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Brown v. Maryland · Welton v. The State of Missouri · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd · George Smith v. William Turner Health-Commissioner of the Port of New York James Norris
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fargo v. Michigan“no State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Houston
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.