Adam v. Saenger’s Empirical Analysis
303 U.S. 59 · 1938
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 23 district · 224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 592 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Milliken v. Meyer (1940), Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie Des Bauxites De Guinee (1982)
124 federal appellate · 23 district · 224 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Huntington v. Attrill · Norris v. State of Alabama · Truax v. Corrigan · Thompson v. Whitman
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 592 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the judgment on its face appears to be a 'record of a court of general jurisdiction, such jurisdiction over the cause and the parties is to be presumed unless disproved by extrinsic evidence, or by the record itself.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the price which the state may exact as the condition of opening its courts to the plaintiff.”
11 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.