Salinger v. Loisel’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 224 · 1924
Citation profile
514 federal appellate · 42 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 955 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Neil v. Biggers (1972), Fay v. Noia (1963)
514 federal appellate · 42 district · 123 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Royall · Logan v. United States · Burton v. United States · Moses Haas v. William Henkel
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 955 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'each application is to be disposed of in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion guided and controlled by a consideration of whatever has a rational bearing on the propriety of the discharge sought'”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darr v. Burford · McCleskey v. Zant
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.