Connally v. General Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
269 U.S. 385 · 1926
Citation profile
1,097 federal appellate · 436 district · 3,344 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6,544 later decisions (232 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973), Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. (1957)
1,097 federal appellate · 436 district · 3,344 state decisions — followed in 50 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 United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Nash v. United States · Northern Securities Company v. United States · United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co.
Cited together with Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · United States v. Harriss · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Smith v. Goguen
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 6,544 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.”
435 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of ordinary intelligence must necessarily guess as to its meaning and differ as to its application.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“less than the current rate of per diem wages in the locality where the work is performed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.