Kinsella v. United States Ex Rel. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
294 federal appellate · 28 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 632 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), United States v. Russell (1973)
294 federal appellate · 28 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 20 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 802 · 10 U.S.C. § 881 · 10 U.S.C. § 918 · 10 U.S.C. § 919 · 10 U.S.C. § 934 · 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 42 U.S.C. § 2274
Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Classic · Betts v. Brady · Reid v. Covert · In re Debs
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 632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shocking to the universal sense of justice.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The [Necessary and Proper Clause] is not itself a grant of power, but a caveat that the Congress possesses all the means necessary to carry out the specifically granted 'foregoing' powers of § 8 'and all other Powers vested by this Constitution'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.