Fox Film Corporation v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis
296 U.S. 207 · 1935
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 15 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Coleman v. Thompson (1991), Wainwright v. Sykes (1977)
73 federal appellate · 15 district · 29 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 Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. v. United States · Manufacturers' Finance Co. v. McKey · Eustis v. Bolles · Enterprise Irrigation District v. Farmers Mutual Canal 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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the judgment of a state court rests upon two grounds, one of which is federal and the other nonfederal in character, our jurisdiction fails if the nonfederal ground is independent of the federal ground and adequate to support the judgment”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . This rule has become firmly fixed at least as early as Klinger v. Missouri, 13 Wall. 257, 263 ( 20 L. Ed. 635, 637 ), and has been reiterated in a long line of cases since that time. It is enough to cite, in addition to the Klinger case, the following: Enterprise Irrigation District v. Canal Co., 243 U. S. 157, 163-165 ( 61 L. Ed. 644, 648, 649 , 37 S. Ct. 318 ); Petrie v. Nampa Irrigation District, 248 U. S. 154, 157 , ( 63 L. Ed. 178, 179 , 39 S. Ct. 25 ); McCoy v. Shaw, 277 U. S. 302 ( 72 L. Ed. 891 , 48 S. Ct. 519 ); Eustis v. Bolles, 150 U. S. 361 ( 37 L. Ed. 1111 , 14 S. Ct. 131 ).” (l. c. 210.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Aeby“in effect, was disposed of before the federal question said to be involved was reached. Chouteau v. Gibson, 111 U. S. 200 ; Chapman v. Goodnow, 123 U. S. 540 , 548. A decision of that question then became unnecessary; and whether it was decided or not, our want of jurisdiction is clear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flournoy v. Wiener
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.