Tileston v. Ullman’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 44 · 1943
Citation profile
166 federal appellate · 48 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 611 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Warth v. Seldin (1975), Griswold v. State of Connecticut (1965)
166 federal appellate · 48 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Blair v. United States · Nashville St Ry v. Wallace · Davis Farnum Manufacturing Company v. City of Los Angeles · Standard Stock Food Co. v. Wright
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 611 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no basis on which we can say that he has standing to secure an adjudication of his patient's constitutional rights to life, which they do not assert on their own behalf.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the record shows the existence of a genuine case or controversy essential to the exercise of the jurisdiction of this Court.”
1 later decision 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.