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274 U.S. 200 · 1927

Citation profile

402
cited by 402 later decisions
36
cited 36 times by the Supreme Court
32
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

77 federal appellate · 27 district · 176 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 402 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)

77 federal appellate · 27 district · 176 state decisions — followed in 32 states

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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 Weems v. United States · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Munn v. Illinois · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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 402 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the usual last resort of constitutional arguments.”
    26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Zablocki v. Redhail · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  2. ““There can be no doubt that so far as procedure is concerned the rights of the patient are most carefully considered and as every step' in this ease was taken in scrupulous compliance with the statute and after months of observation, there is no doubt that in that respect the plaintiff in error has had due process at law.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In Re Main
  3. “very careful provisions by which the act protects the patients from possible abuse”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Margaret Vaughn v. Sutton Ruoff

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.