Harman v. Forssenius’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
451 federal appellate · 220 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,403 later decisions (75 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976), Procunier v. Martinez (1974)
451 federal appellate · 220 district · 35 state decisions
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 Baker v. Carr · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Reynolds v. Sims · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · United States v. Classic
Cited together with Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Zwickler v. Koota · Younger v. Harris · Baggett v. Bullitt · Reetz v. Bozanich
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 1,403 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contemplates that deference to state court adjudication only be made where the issue of state law is uncertain.”
72 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Constitutional rights would be of little value if they could be ... indirectly denied.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fundamental 'because [it is] preservative of all rights,'”
8 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.