Lehon v. City of Atlanta’s Empirical Analysis
242 U.S. 53 · 1916
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2011 · most notably Thornhill v. Alabama (1940), Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934)
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Harry Gundling v. City of Chicago · Lehon v. City of Atlanta
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o complain of a ruling one must be made the victim of it. One cannot invoke, to defeat a law, an apprehension of what might be done under it and which, if done, might not receive judicial approval.”
4 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.