Valentine v. Chrestensen’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 52 · 1942
Citation profile
230 federal appellate · 54 district · 235 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 810 later decisions (111 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York (1980)
230 federal appellate · 54 district · 235 state decisions — followed in 31 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
reviewedChrestensen v. Valentine (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on 34 F. Supp. 596 - Chrestensen v. Valentine · Chrestensen v. Valentine
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 810 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Constitution imposes no such restraint on government as respects purely commercial advertising.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If that evasion were successful, every merchant who desires to broadcast advertising leaflets in the streets need only append a civic appeal, or a moral platitude, to achieve immunity from the law's command.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that, in truth, he was engaged in the dissemination of matter proper for public information, none the less so because there was inextricably attached to the medium of such dissemination commercial advertising matter.”
1 later decision 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.