Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utilities Commission’s Empirical Analysis
301 U.S. 292 · 1937
Citation profile
460 federal appellate · 86 district · 513 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,406 later decisions (82 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Glasser v. United States (1942), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
460 federal appellate · 86 district · 513 state decisions — followed in 46 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 Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. United States · Morgan v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · St. Joseph Stock Yards Co. v. United States
Cited together with Morgan v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Aetna Ins Co Kennedy Bogash Springfield Fire Marine Ins Co v. Same Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co Limited · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Morgan v. United States
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 1,406 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protection of the individual against arbitrary action”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the civil area, the [Supreme] Court [of the United States] has said that `[w]e do not presume acquiescence in the loss of fundamental rights[.]'”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.”
1 later decision 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.