Myers v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
238 U.S. 368 · 1915
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 29 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Scheuer v. Rhodes (1974)
46 federal appellate · 29 district · 11 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 United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Civil Rights Cases · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · United States v. Reese
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a contention pressed concerning the application of the statute upon which the suits were based to the acts in question. But we think in view of the nature and character of the acts, of the self-operative force of the Fifteenth Amendment and of the legislation of Congress on the subject that there is no ground for such contention. 238 U.S. at 382, 383, 35 S.Ct. at 936.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baxter v. Birkins
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.