Ex parte Bransford’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 354 · 1940
Citation profile
198 federal appellate · 88 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 555 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Steffel v. Thompson (1974), Zemel v. Rusk (1965)
198 federal appellate · 88 district · 4 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 Lemke v. Farmers Grain Co. · Stratton v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · Ex parte Collins · Pittman v. Home Owners' Loan Corp. · Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. v. Oklahoma Packing 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 555 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is necessary to distinguish between a petition for injunction on the ground of the unconstitutionality of a statute as applied, which requires a three-judge court, and a petition which seeks an injunction on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the result obtained by the use of a statute which is not attacked as unconstitutional. The latter petition does not require a three-judge court.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An * * * injunction restraining the enforcement, operation or execution of any State statute * * or of an order made by an administrative board or commission acting under State statutes, shall not be granted by any district court or judge thereof upon the ground of the unconstitutionality of such statute unless the application therefor is heard and determined by a district court of three judges under section 2284 of this title.” [ 28 U.S.C. § 2281 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the enforcement, operation, or execution”
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.