Tigner v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 141 · 1940
Citation profile
120 federal appellate · 74 district · 422 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 988 later decisions (110 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (2000)
120 federal appellate · 74 district · 422 state decisions — followed in 44 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 Nebbia v. People of State of New York · United States v. Rock Royal Co-Op Noyes · Keogh v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co.
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 988 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Constitution does not require things which are different in fact or opinion to be treated in law as though they were the same.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“How to effectuate policy-the adaptation of means to legitimately sought ends-is one of the most intractable of legislative problems.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“These large sections of the population—those who labored with their hands and those who worked the soil—were as a matter of economic fact in a different relation to the community from that occupied by industrial combinations. Farmers were widely scattered and inured to habits of individualism; their economic fate was in large measure dependent upon contingencies beyond their control.”
2 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.