Barrows v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
747 federal appellate · 132 district · 375 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,091 later decisions (140 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970)
747 federal appellate · 132 district · 375 state decisions — followed in 39 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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Shelley v. Kraemer · Massachusetts v. Mellon
Cited together with Warth v. Seldin · Singleton v. Wulff · Baker v. Carr · Shelley v. Kraemer · Craig v. Boren
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 2,091 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, one may not claim standing in this Court to vindicate the constitutional rights of some third party.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“outweighed by the need to protect the fundamental rights which would be denied.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relation between the coercion exerted on respondent and her possible pecuniary loss thereby is so close to the purpose of the restrictive covenant, to violate the constitutional rights of those discriminated against, that respondent is the only effective adversary of the unworthy covenant in its last stand.”
7 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.