Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
614 federal appellate · 236 district · 1,905 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,529 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
614 federal appellate · 236 district · 1,905 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Johnson v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Screws v. United States · Thornhill v. Alabama · United States v. Harriss
Cited together with Kolender v. Lawson · Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Harriss · Smith v. Goguen · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
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 3,529 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute,”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“there are no standards governing the exercise of discretion.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“They are reflected, too, in the spirit of Vachel Lindsay's”
20 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.