Sprout v. South Bend

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• striking down a “flat tax, substantial in amount and the same for busses plying the streets continuously in local service and for busses making, as do many interstate busses, only a single trip daily”
• “The privilege of engaging in [interstate] commerce is one which a state cannot deny”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

142 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-17· cited 3,147×
• Northwestern States Portland Cement Co. v. Minnesota
  Supreme Court· 1959-02-24· cited 531×
• Sproles v. Binford
  Supreme Court· 1932-05-23· cited 480×
• Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison
  Supreme Court· 1951-01-15· cited 445×
• South Carolina State Highway Department v. Barnwell Bros.
  Supreme Court· 1938-02-14· cited 424×
• Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1939-04-17· cited 400×
• Miller Brothers Co. v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-03· cited 331×
• Nashville, C. & St. LR Co. v. Wallace
  Supreme Court· 1933-02-06· cited 291×
• American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. Scheiner
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 290×
• McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.
  Supreme Court· 1940-01-29· cited 284×
• SC Hwy. Dept. v. Barnwell Bros.
  Supreme Court· 1938-02-14· cited 260×
• Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Wallace
  Supreme Court· 1933-02-06· cited 247×
• Evansville-Vanderburgh Airport Authority District v. Delta Airlines, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-19· cited 232×
• New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Nothnagle
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-08· cited 209×
• Minnesota v. Blasius
  Supreme Court· 1933-11-06· cited 201×
• Continental Baking Co. v. Woodring
  Supreme Court· 1932-05-23· cited 187×
• Eli Lilly & Co. v. Sav-On-Drugs, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 138×
• East Ohio Gas Co. v. Tax Comm'n of Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1931-05-18· cited 122×
• Anderson, Clayton & Co. v. State ex rel Allred
  Texas Supreme Court· 1933-06-24· cited 120×
• Interstate Transit, Inc. v. Lindsey
  Supreme Court· 1931-04-13· cited 117×

Cites

36 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hess v. Pawloski
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 750×
• Kane v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1916-12-04· cited 341×
• Crutcher v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1891-05-25· cited 324×
• Buck v. Kuykendall
  Supreme Court· 1925-03-02· cited 320×
• Packard v. Banton
  Supreme Court· 1924-02-18· cited 306×
• Leloup v. Port of Mobile
  Supreme Court· 1888-05-14· cited 283×
• St. Louis v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
  Supreme Court· 1893-03-06· cited 210×
• Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Duke
  Supreme Court· 1925-01-12· cited 189×
• Arkadelphia Milling Co. v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1919-03-03· cited 176×
• Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. Settle
  Supreme Court· 1922-11-13· cited 162×
• Clark v. Poor
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-31· cited 158×
• Interstate Busses Corp. v. Blodgett
  Supreme Court· 1928-02-20· cited 145×
• Bowman v. Continental Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1921-06-06· cited 144×
• Patapsco Guano Co. v. North Carolina Board of Agriculture
  Supreme Court· 1898-05-31· cited 138×
• Erie Railroad v. Williams
  Supreme Court· 1914-05-25· cited 120×
• Red \C\ Oil Manufacturing Co. v. Board of Agriculture
  Supreme Court· 1912-01-09· cited 117×
• George W. Bush & Sons Co. v. Maloy
  Supreme Court· 1925-03-02· cited 109×
• Morris v. Duby
  Supreme Court· 1927-04-18· cited 108×
• Osborne v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1897-01-04· cited 98×
• St. Louis v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
  Supreme Court· 1893-05-15· cited 95×