Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 496 · 1939
Citation profile
1,440 federal appellate · 601 district · 650 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,647 later decisions (348 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983)
1,440 federal appellate · 601 district · 650 state decisions — followed in 42 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Mooney v. Holohan
Cited together with Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Schneider v. State · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Cox v. State of New Hampshire · Heffron v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc.
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 4,647 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly, communicating thoughts between citizens, and discussing public questions.”
210 later decisions quote this exact passage“the right or immunity is one of personal liberty, not dependent for its existence upon the infringement of property rights.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action authorized by law to be commenced by any person: 10 "(3) To redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States or by any Act of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens or of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States;”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.