Palko v. State of Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 319 · 1937
Citation profile
928 federal appellate · 286 district · 1,202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,864 later decisions (366 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Chapman v. State of California (1967), Johnson v. Zerbst (1938)
928 federal appellate · 286 district · 1,202 state decisions — followed in 49 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 · Weeks v. United States · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Cited together with Rochin v. People of California · Benton v. Maryland · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Roe v. Wade · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 3,864 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,”
122 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Betts v. Brady · Kovacs v. Cooper“neither liberty nor justice would exist if they were sacrificed.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental,”
32 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.