Hebert v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
272 U.S. 312 · 1926
Citation profile
268 federal appellate · 39 district · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 820 later decisions (157 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Teague v. Lane (1989)
268 federal appellate · 39 district · 147 state decisions — followed in 29 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Ponzi v. Fessenden · United States v. Lanza · Thomas Patterson v. People of the State of Colorado Ex Rel Attorney General of the State of Colorado · Beavers v. Haubert
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 820 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The due process of law clause in the Fourteenth Amendment does not take up the statutes of the several states and make them the test of what it requires ....”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In Hebert v. State of Louisiana, 272 U.S. 312, 315 , 47 S.Ct. 103, 104 , 71 L.Ed. 270 , 48 A.L.R. 1102 , the Supreme Court said: ‘In the absence of any showing to the contrary, and there is none, it properly may be assumed that the United States acquiesced in their arrest and trial on the accusation under the state law, notwithstanding they were then on bail awaiting trial in the federal court on the indictment pending there.’ ””
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.