Ex parte Endo’s Empirical Analysis
323 U.S. 283 · 1944
Citation profile
277 federal appellate · 83 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 682 later decisions (77 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Fay v. Noia (1963), Udall v. Tallman (1965)
277 federal appellate · 83 district · 24 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Yakus v. United States
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 682 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of the view that the court may act if there is a respondent within reach of its process who has custody of the petitioner,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must plainly show a purpose to bestow the precise authority which is claimed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rigid formulae, even as to the issuance of the Great Writ, may be tempered by factual considerations requiring the decision that its `objective may be in no way impaired or defeated by the removal of the prisoner from the territorial jurisdiction of the District Court' after the suit is begun.”
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.