Heiner v. Donnan’s Empirical Analysis
285 U.S. 312 · 1932
Citation profile
254 federal appellate · 60 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 792 later decisions (76 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Dunn v. Blumstein (1972), Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. (1973)
254 federal appellate · 60 district · 150 state decisions — followed in 23 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Knowlton v. Moore · United States v. Wells
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 792 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“incapable of being overcome by proof of the most positive character.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has held more than once that a statute creating a presumption which operates to deny a fair opportunity to rebut it violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so arbitrary and capricious as to cause it to fall before the due process of law clause of the Fifth Amendment . . . .”
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.