Willing v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 274 · 1928
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 42 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 298 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2015 · most notably Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth (1937), Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936)
94 federal appellate · 42 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChicago Auditorium Ass'n v. Willing (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Massachusetts v. Mellon · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · William Truax v. Mike Raich
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 298 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * But still the proceeding is not a case or controversy within the meaning of article 3 of the Constitution. The fact that the plaintiff’s desires are thwarted by its own doubts, or by the fears of others, does not confer a cause of action. No defendant has wronged the plaintiff or has threatened to do so. * * -X-””
6 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.