State of Ohio Clarke v. Deckebach’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 392 · 1927
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably Hines v. Davidowitz (1941), Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934)
19 federal appellate · 12 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Terrace v. Thompson · Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'ít is enough for present purposes that the ordinance, in the light of facts admitted or generally assumed, does not preclude the possibility of a rational basis for the legislative judgment and that we have no such knowledge of local conditions as would enable us to say that it is clearly wrong.’ ””
3 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.