Leach v. Carlile’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 138 · 1922
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 21 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1978 · most notably Roth v. United States (1957), Williams v. Fanning (1947)
84 federal appellate · 21 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLeach v. Carlisle (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Buchanan v. Warley · Ex parte Jackson · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · United States Milwaukee Social Democratic Pub Co v. Burleson · Bates & Guild Co. v. Payne
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But when habit and law combine to exclude every other [means of transportation of mail] it seems to me that the First Amendment in terms forbids such control of the post as was exercised here.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Pike v. Walker“justly be said to be palpably wrong and therefore arbitrary.”
1 later decision 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.