Fairchild v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 126 · 1922
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 60 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), Baker v. Carr (1962)
100 federal appellate · 60 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 14 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 David Muskrat v. · Tyler v. Judges of the Court of Registration · Giles v. Harris · In re Pacific Railway Commission
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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the right, possessed by every citizen, to require that the Government be administered according to law....' Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 , 129 (42 S.Ct. 274, 275, 66 L.Ed. 499) (1922).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“brought before the court(s) for determination by such regular proceedings as are established by law or custom for the protection or enforcement of rights, or the prevention, redress, or punishment of wrongs.''' Fairchild v. Hughes, 258 U.S. 126 , 129, 42 S.Ct. 274, 275, 66 L.Ed. 499 (1922). 12 The underlying”
2 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.