United States v. State of West Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 463 · 1935
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 29 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 269 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth (1937), Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936)
103 federal appellate · 29 district · 11 state decisions
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 Massachusetts v. Mellon · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace · Hudson County Water Co. v. McCarter · Missouri v. Holland · Georgia v. Tennessee Copper Co.
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 269 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until the right asserted is threatened with invasion by acts of the State, which serve both to define the controversy and to establish its existence in the judicial sense, there is no question presented which is justiciable by a federal court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“too' vague and ill-defined to admit of judicial determination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the adjudication of a difference of opinion.”
2 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.