Hannegan v. Esquire, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 146 · 1946
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 22 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 270 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Hamling v. United States (1974)
85 federal appellate · 22 district · 42 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
reviewedEsquire, Inc. v. Walker (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Jackson · United States Milwaukee Social Democratic Pub Co v. Burleson · Bates & Guild Co. v. Payne · Houghton v. Payne
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 270 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e may assume that Congress has broad power of classification and need not open second-class mail to publications of all types.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] requirement that literature or art [or public reports] conform to some norm prescribed by an official smacks of an ideology foreign to our system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The validity of the obscenity laws is recognition that the mails may not be used to satisfy all tastes, no matter how perverted.”
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.