United States v. James Griggs Raines’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
762 federal appellate · 185 district · 625 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,481 later decisions (223 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Warth v. Seldin (1975)
762 federal appellate · 185 district · 625 state decisions — followed in 44 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 · William Marbury v. James Madison · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Screws v. United States · Thornhill v. Alabama
Cited together with Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Barrows v. Jackson · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Warth v. Seldin · United States v. Salerno
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 2,481 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one to whom application of a statute is constitutional will not be heard to attack the statute on the ground that impliedly it might also be taken as applying to other persons or other situations in which its application might be unconstitutional.”
87 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““where the statute in question has already been declared unconstitutional in the vast majority of its intended applications, and it can fairly be said that it was not intended to stand as valid, on the basis of fortuitous circumstances, only in a fraction of cases it was originally designed to cover.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a litigant may only assert his own constitutional rights or immunities.”
6 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.