Schilb v. Kuebel’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 48 district · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 544 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Baker v. McCollan (1979), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
151 federal appellate · 48 district · 181 state decisions — followed in 27 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3141 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 544 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b)ail is basic to our system of law and the Eighth Amendment's proscription of excessive bail has been assumed to have application to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]lassifications will be set aside only if no grounds can be conceived to justify them ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Prior to 1964 the professional bail bondsman system with all its abuses was in full and odorous bloom in Illinois. Under that system the bail bondsman customarily collected the maximum fee (10% of the amount of the bond) permitted by stat ute, and retained that entire amount even though the accused fully satisfied the conditions of the bond. Payment of this substantial ‘premium’ was required of the good risk as well as of the bad. The results were that a heavy and irretrievable burden fell upon the accused, to the excellent profit of the bondsman, and that professional bondsmen, and not the courts, exercised significant control over the actual workings of the bail system.” [citations omitted.] 23”
3 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.