Hearst v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.2d 68 · 1936
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Barsky v. United States (1948), Townsend v. United States (1938)
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
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 47 U.S.C. § 151 · 47 U.S.C. § 220 · 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Kilbourn v. Thompson · Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Co. · McGrain v. Daugherty · Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands Agoncillo · New Orleans Water Works Co v. City of New Orleans
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a court could say to the Congress [, and we might add to its authorized agents,] that it could use or could not use information in its possession, the independence of the Legislature would be destroyed and the constitutional separation of the powers of government invaded. Nothing is better settled than that each of the three great departments of government shall be independent and not subject to be controlled directly or indirectly by either of the others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. McMillan
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.