Watson v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 387 · 1941
Citation profile
298 federal appellate · 139 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,010 later decisions (118 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), Burford v. Sun Oil Co. (1943)
298 federal appellate · 139 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States · Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Gibbs v. Buck
Cited together with Younger v. Harris · Beal v. Missouri Pac Rr Corporation · Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Fenner v. Boykin · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
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 1,010 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph, and in whatever manner and against whomever an effort might be made to apply it.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(n)o citizen or member of the community is immune from prosecution, In good faith, for his alleged criminal acts.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in advance of efforts to apply the separate provisions”
4 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.