Selective Service System v. Minnesota Public Interest Research Group’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 121 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 741 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Wayte v. United States (1985), Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc. (1995)
196 federal appellate · 121 district · 127 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams · United States v. O'Brien · Boyd v. United States
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 741 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“viewed in terms of the type and severity of burdens imposed, reasonably can be said to further nonpunitive legislative purposes”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a law that legislatively determines guilt and inflicts punishment upon an identifiable individual without provision of the protections of a judicial trial.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“specification of the affected persons, punishment, and lack of a judicial trial.”
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.