Block v. Hirsh’s Empirical Analysis
256 U.S. 135 · 1921
Citation profile
164 federal appellate · 104 district · 400 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,038 later decisions (133 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Meyer v. State of Nebraska (1923), Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co (1926)
164 federal appellate · 104 district · 400 state decisions — followed in 40 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boyd v. United States · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Munn v. Illinois · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co.
Cited together with Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Edgar Levy Leasing Co v. Siegel 810 West End Ave · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · Bowles v. Willingham
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 1,038 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`No doubt it is true that a legislative declaration of facts that are material only as the ground for enacting a rule of law, for instance, that a certain use is a public one, may not be held conclusive by the Court. * * * But a declaration by a legislature concerning public conditions that by necessity and duty it must know, is entitled at least to great respect. In this instance Congress stated a publicly notorious and almost world-wide fact. That the emergency declared by the statute did exist must be assumed * * *'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here comes a point at which the police power ceases and leaves only that of eminent domain. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . The preference given to the tenant in possession is an almost necessary incident of the [rent control] policy and is traditional in English law. If the tenant remained subject to the landlord's power to evict, the attempt to limit the landlord's demands would fail.”
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.