United States v. Guest’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
462 federal appellate · 158 district · 256 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,435 later decisions (109 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Roe v. Wade (1973)
462 federal appellate · 158 district · 256 state decisions — followed in 32 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Baker v. Carr · Monroe v. Pape · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization
Cited together with Shapiro v. Thompson · Griffin v. Breckenridge · United States v. Price · Dunn v. Blumstein · Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County
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 1,435 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The constitutional right to travel from one State to another, and necessarily to use the highways and other instrumentalities of interstate commerce in doing so, occupies a position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union. It is a right that has been firmly established and repeatedly recognized.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'protects the individual against state action, not against wrongs done by individuals.'”
12 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.