Peters v. Hobby’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
257 federal appellate · 42 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 565 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Paul v. Davis (1976)
257 federal appellate · 42 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
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 565 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“condemn[ed] a man to a suspect class and the outer darkness, without the rudiments of a fair trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Agencies, whether created by statute or (by) Executive Order, must of course be free to give reasonable scope to the terms conferring their authority. But they are not free to ignore plain limitations on that authority.”
1 later decision 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.