Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 306 · 1950
Citation profile
3,293 federal appellate · 1,207 district · 7,371 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18,116 later decisions (226 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson (1980), Hanson v. Denckla (1958)
3,293 federal appellate · 1,207 district · 7,371 state decisions — followed in 50 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 Milliken v. Meyer · Pennoyer v. Neff · Hess v. Pawloski · Grannis v. Ordean
Cited together with Mathews v. Eldridge · Armstrong v. Manzo · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Fuentes v. Shevin · Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams
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 18,116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.”
1,153 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not reasonably calculated to reach those who could easily be informed by other means at hand.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“establish beyond doubt the right of its courts”
16 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.