Stefanelli v. Minard’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
532 federal appellate · 92 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,185 later decisions (87 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Mapp v. Ohio (1961), Baker v. Carr (1962)
532 federal appellate · 92 district · 39 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
reviewedStefanelli v. Minard (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Screws v. United States · Townsend v. Burke · Cobbledick v. United States
Cited together with Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Younger v. Harris · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado · Perez v. Ledesma
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 1,185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]ederal courts should refuse to intervene in State criminal proceedings to suppress the use of evidence even when claimed to have been secured by unlawful search and seizure.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Act of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sharp v. Lucky · Nelson v. Knox““Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.