Donaldson v. Read Magazine, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 178 · 1948
Citation profile
142 federal appellate · 50 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 355 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably United States v. O'Brien (1968), Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. (1976)
142 federal appellate · 50 district · 29 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
reviewedHannegan v. Read Magazine, Inc. (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · United States v. Swift & Co. · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Heininger · Grosjean v. American Press Co. · Bridges v. State of California Times-Mirror Co
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 355 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“always been recognized in this country and is firmly established”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the press [do not] include complete freedom, uncontrollable by Congress, to use the mails for perpetration of swindling schemes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A contention cannot be seriously considered which assumes that freedom of the press includes a right to raise money to promote circulation by deception of the public.”
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.