Railway Mail Ass'n v. Corsi’s Empirical Analysis
326 U.S. 88 · 1945
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 90 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 512 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Hishon v. King & Spalding (1984), Roth v. United States (1957)
116 federal appellate · 90 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
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 512 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conflicting contentions of the parties ... present a real, substantial controversy between parties having adverse legal interests, a dispute definite and concrete, not hypothetical or abstract.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To use the Fourteenth Amendment as a sword against such State power would stultify that Amendment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A judicial determination that such legislation violated the Fourteenth Amendment would be a distortion of the policy manifested in that amendment which was adopted to prevent state legislation designed to perpetuate discrimination on the basis of race or color.”
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.