Grosjean v. American Press Co.’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 233 · 1936
Citation profile
397 federal appellate · 163 district · 488 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,768 later decisions (254 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
397 federal appellate · 163 district · 488 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Smyth v. Ames
Cited together with Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
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 1,768 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an untrammeled press as a vital source of public information”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a corporation is a 'person' within the meaning of the equal protection and due process of law clauses”
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.