Warth v. Seldin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5,191 federal appellate · 3,430 district · 1,429 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19,688 later decisions (286 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (1992), Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998)
5,191 federal appellate · 3,430 district · 1,429 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWarth v. Seldin (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Griswold v. State of Connecticut
Cited together with Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Allen v. Wright · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
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 19,688 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In essence the question of standing is whether the litigant is entitled to have the court decide the merits of the dispute or of particular issues.”
891 later decisions quote this exact passage“must allege and show that they personally have been injured, not that injury has been suffered by other, unidentified members of the class to which they belong and which they purport to represent.”
156 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Even in the absence of injury to itself, an association may have standing solely as the representative of its members.”
122 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.