Greene v. Lindsey’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 24 district · 372 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 699 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams (1983), Tulsa Professional Collection Services, Inc. v. Pope (1988)
115 federal appellate · 24 district · 372 state decisions — followed in 32 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
reviewedLindsey v. Greene (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Shaffer v. Heitner · Pennoyer v. Neff · Ferguson v. Skrupa
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 699 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“notice reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage““[I]t is clear that, in the circumstances of this case, merely posting notice on an apartment door does not satisfy minimum standards of due process. In a significant number of instances, reliance on posting * * * results in a failure to provide actual notice to the tenant concerned. * * * As the process servers were well aware, notices posted on apartment door's * * * were ‘not infrequently’ removed by children or other tenants before they could have their intended effect.” (Footnote omitted.)”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be judged in the light of its practical application to the affairs of men as they are ordinarily conducted.”
7 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.