Anderson v. Ludgin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 189 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Griffin Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care (1986), White v. Burns (1990)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 189 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
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Dunn v. Blumstein · Williams v. Rhodes · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Storer v. Brown
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the language of the statute is clear, it is assumed that the words themselves express the intent of the legislature; . . . and thus there is no need to construe the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where . . . the language of a statute is not absolutely clear, its meaning can often be determined by referring to the legislative history of its enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“great deference to the construction given the statute by the agency charged with its enforcement.”
1 later decision 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.