Finch v. Connor’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
544 federal appellate · 71 district · 173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,104 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Estelle v. Gamble (1976), Florida v. Royer (1983)
544 federal appellate · 71 district · 173 state decisions — followed in 37 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
Cited together with Estelle v. Gamble · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Haines v. Kerner · Hughes v. Rowe
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.