Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
236 U.S. 230 · 1915
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 20 district · 213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 389 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Connally v. General Construction Co. (1926), Roth v. United States (1957)
49 federal appellate · 20 district · 213 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Lawton v. Steele · Siler v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Holden v. Hardy
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 389 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature must declare the policy of the law and fix the legal principles which are to control in given cases; but an administrative body may be invested with the power to ascertain the facts and conditions to which the policy and principles apply.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of the right-, and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. # * *” (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... They take their attraction from the general interest, eager and wholesome it may be, in their subjects, but a prurient interest may be excited and appealed to....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.