Lynch v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 571 · 1934
Citation profile
642 federal appellate · 200 district · 253 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,142 later decisions (93 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations (1974), Flemming v. Nestor (1960)
642 federal appellate · 200 district · 253 state decisions — followed in 38 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
reviewedLynch v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hans v. State of Louisiana · Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · In re Ayers · Principality of Monaco v. Mississippi
Cited together with Perry v. United States · United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey · United States v. Winstar Corp. · Bowen v. Public Agencies Opposed to Social Security Entrapment · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
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 2,142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o power to curtail the amount of the benefits which Congress contracted to pay was reserved to Congress; and none could be given by any regulation promulgated by the Administrator.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]onsent to sue the United States is a privilege accorded, not the grant of a property interest protected by the Fifth Amendment. The consent may be withdrawn....”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All laws granting or pertaining to yearly renewable term insurance are hereby repealed.”
4 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.