Craig v. Harney’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 367 · 1947
Citation profile
267 federal appellate · 36 district · 543 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,205 later decisions (101 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966)
267 federal appellate · 36 district · 543 state decisions — followed in 38 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 Tumey v. State of Ohio · Schneider v. State · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Thomas v. Collins · Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Cited together with Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co · Pennekamp v. Florida · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Estes v. Texas
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 1,205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What transpires in the court room is public property.”
71 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(j)udges are supposed to be men (and women) of fortitude, able to thrive in a hardy climate,”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Kendall · In Re Kelly“the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high.”
6 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.