Polk Co. v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 5 · 1938
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably International Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945), Estelle v. Gamble (1976)
61 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 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 Savage v. Jones · Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same · Ogden v. Saunders · Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he salutary principle that the essential facts should be determined before passing upon grave constitutional questions . . . .”
3 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.