People of State of New York Bryant v. Zimmerman’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 63 · 1928
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 18 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 421 later decisions (114 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Chambers v. Mississippi (1973)
107 federal appellate · 18 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 17 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. · United States v. Cruikshank · Whitney v. People of State of California · Plessy v. Ferguson · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live
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 421 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[N]o particular form of words or phrases is essential, but only that the claim of invalidity on the ground therefor be brought to the attention of the state court with fair precision and in due time. And if the record as a whole shows either expressly or by clear intendment that this was done, the claim is to be regarded as having been adequately presented.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The contention as to the various omissions which are noted-in the objections here urged ignores the well-established principle that the legislature is not bound, in order to support the constitutional validity of its regulation, to extend it to all cases which it might possibly reach.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“requiring this information to be supplied for the public files will operate as a deterrent from the violations of public and private right to which the association might [otherwise] be tempted.”
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.