Hynes v. Mayor and Council of Oradell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
244 federal appellate · 127 district · 200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 995 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Moore v. City of East Cleveland (1977), Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart (1976)
244 federal appellate · 127 district · 200 state decisions — followed in 26 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 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Younger v. Harris · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Buckley v. Valeo · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 995 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“power to protect its citizens from crime and undue annoyance by regulating soliciting and canvassing.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[o]f all the methods of spreading unpopular ideas, [house-to-house canvassing] seems the least entitled to extensive protection. The possibilities of persuasion are slight compared with the certainties of annoyance. Great as is the value of exposing citizens to novel views, home is one place where a man ought to be able to shut himself up in his own ideas if he desires.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“burglars frequently pose as canvassers, either in order that they may have a pretense to discover whether a house is empty and hence ripe for burglary, or for the purpose of spying out the premises in order that they may return later.”
6 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.