Hall v. Beals’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
530 federal appellate · 119 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,293 later decisions (86 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Warth v. Seldin (1975), Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994)
530 federal appellate · 119 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 24 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 Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Hines v. Davidowitz · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
Cited together with United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Powell v. McCormack · Moore v. Ogilvie
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 1,293 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lost its character as a present, live controversy of the kind that must exist if we are to avoid advisory opinions on abstract propositions of law.”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunn v. Blumstein · M. John Epp, M.D. Jane Doe, I, by Her Next Friend Kathryn D. Levy Jane Doe, Ii, by Her Next Friend Kathryn D. Levy Jane Doe, Iii, by Her Next Friend Kathryn D. Levy, Intervenors Below v. Robert Kerrey, Governor of the State of Nebraska Henry D. Smith, M.D., Director of Health of the State of Nebraska Paul L. Douglas, Attorney General of the State of Nebraska Donald L. Knowles, County Attorney of Douglas County, Nebraska John D. Coe, M.D. Herbert Reese, M.D. Hirim Hilton, M.D. Warren R. Miller, M.D. Leo T. Heywood, M.D. Mike Swanda Leland C. Lucke Thelma D. Young, Members of the Nebraska Commission on Medical Qualifications, G. William Orr, M.D. Women's Services, P.C., a Nebraska Professional Corporation v. Donald L. Knowles, County Attorney for the County of Douglas, Nebraska Paul L. Douglas, Attorney General of the State of Nebraska Robert Kerrey, Governor of the State of Nebraska Henry D. Smith, M.D., Director of the State of Nebraska John D. Coe, M.D. Herbert Reese, M.D. Hirim Hilton, M.D. Warren R. Miller, M.D. Leo T. Heywood, M.D. Michael Swanda Leland C. Lucke Thelma D. Young“'afford no basis for our passing on the substantive issues [he] would have us decide,'”
7 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.