Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
1,361 federal appellate · 510 district · 508 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,062 later decisions (118 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Swain v. State of Alabama (1965)
1,361 federal appellate · 510 district · 508 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Shelley v. Kraemer · Cooper v. Aaron · Civil Rights Cases · Harrison v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People
Cited together with Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · Shelley v. Kraemer · Evans v. Newton · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.
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 4,062 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has so far insinuated itself into a position of interdependence”
128 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only by sifting facts and weighing circumstances can the nonobvious involvement of the State in private conduct be attributed its true significance.”
103 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Specifically defining the limits of our inquiry, what we hold today is that when a State leases public property in the manner and for the purpose shown ... here, the proscriptions of the Fourteenth Amendment must be complied with.”
5 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.