Fenner v. Boykin’s Empirical Analysis
271 U.S. 240 · 1926
Citation profile
224 federal appellate · 104 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 792 later decisions (84 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. (1941)
224 federal appellate · 104 district · 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Terrace v. Thompson · Savage v. Jones
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 792 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The accused should first set up and rely upon his defense in the state courts, even though this involves a challenge of the validity of some statute, unless it plainly appears that this course would not afford adequate protection.'”
36 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.