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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1951

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1951 (October 1, 1951 to September 30, 1952), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 395 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (395 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.

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  1. January 2, 1952· cited 3,286×
    Rochin v. California
  2. January 7, 1952· cited 3,056×
    Morissette v. United States
  3. June 2, 1952· cited 1,646×
    Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
  4. March 3, 1952· cited 1,544×
    Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co.
  5. November 26, 1951· cited 1,320×
    United States v. Jeffers
  6. January 2, 1952· cited 1,157×
    Stack v. Boyle
  7. January 7, 1952· cited 1,034×
    United States v. Hayman
  8. June 9, 1952· cited 993×
    Frisbie v. Collins
  9. February 4, 1952· cited 972×
    Kerotest Manufacturing Co. v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co.
  10. May 26, 1952· cited 874×
    Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
  11. October 15, 1951· cited 849×
    Harisiades v. Shaughnessy
  12. April 28, 1952· cited 831×
    Zorach v. Clauson
  13. January 28, 1952· cited 770×
    Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States
  14. April 28, 1952· cited 767×
    Far East Conference v. United States
  15. March 10, 1952· cited 717×
    Carlson v. Landon
  16. April 28, 1952· cited 578×
    United States v. Oregon State Medical Society
  17. May 26, 1952· cited 544×
    Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak
  18. March 31, 1952· cited 512×
    Doremus v. Board of Ed. of Hawthorne
  19. February 4, 1952· cited 512×
    Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad
  20. June 9, 1952· cited 480×
    Beauharnais v. Illinois
  21. December 3, 1951· cited 464×
    Stefanelli v. Minard
  22. April 21, 1952· cited 462×
    Sacher v. United States
  23. May 12, 1952· cited 444×
    Stroble v. California
  24. January 14, 1952· cited 414×
    Halcyon Lines v. Haenn Ship Ceiling & Refitting Corp.
  25. December 11, 1951· cited 413×
    Lorain Journal Co. v. United States
  26. May 26, 1952· cited 401×
    National Labor Relations Board v. American National Insurance
  27. March 3, 1952· cited 385×
    Adler v. Board of Ed. of City of New York
  28. March 3, 1952· cited 361×
    Blackmar v. Guerre
  29. May 12, 1952· cited 360×
    Rutkin v. United States
  30. November 5, 1951· cited 348×
    McMahon v. United States
  31. March 3, 1952· cited 333×
    Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. v. Missouri
  32. June 9, 1952· cited 304×
    Isbrandtsen Co. v. Johnson
  33. November 5, 1951· cited 295×
    Gardner v. Panama Railroad
  34. June 9, 1952· cited 285×
    Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Howard
  35. November 26, 1951· cited 272×
    Gallegos v. Nebraska
  36. May 26, 1952· cited 235×
    Federal Trade Commission v. Ruberoid Co.
  37. November 13, 1951· cited 221×
    United States v. Carignan
  38. April 7, 1952· cited 219×
    Mullaney v. Anderson
  39. December 3, 1951· cited 208×
    United States v. Wunderlich
  40. January 26, 1952· cited 187×
    Cook v. Cook
  41. March 10, 1952· cited 186×
    Lilly v. Commissioner
  42. April 28, 1952· cited 177×
    Lykes v. United States
  43. March 24, 1952· cited 174×
    Bruner v. United States
  44. June 2, 1952· cited 168×
    Robertson v. United States
  45. January 7, 1952· cited 168×
    International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union v. Juneau Spruce Corp.
  46. January 28, 1952· cited 140×
    Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Redwine
  47. January 2, 1952· cited 136×
    Desper v. Starved Rock Ferry Co.
  48. January 28, 1952· cited 125×
    Georgia Railroad & Banking v. Redwine
  49. March 3, 1952· cited 117×
    Sutton v. Leib
  50. May 5, 1952· cited 107×
    Ray v. Blair
  51. December 11, 1951· cited 105×
    Palmer v. Ashe
  52. March 3, 1952· cited 94×
    Standard Oil Co. v. Peck
  53. January 28, 1952· cited 92×
    Guessefeldt v. McGrath
  54. May 12, 1952· cited 91×
    United States v. Spector
  55. February 4, 1952· cited 87×
    United States v. New Wrinkle, Inc.
  56. December 11, 1951· cited 87×
    Sutphen Estates, Inc. v. United States
  57. April 21, 1952· cited 86×
    United States v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance
  58. April 7, 1952· cited 73×
    First Nat. Bank of Chicago v. United Air Lines, Inc.
  59. June 2, 1952· cited 71×
    Gelling v. Texas
  60. December 11, 1951· cited 70×
    Broady v. Illinois Central Railroad
  61. May 26, 1952· cited 69×
    Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. v. Federal Power Commission
  62. March 3, 1952· cited 64×
    Brannan v. Stark
  63. January 7, 1952· cited 63×
    Carson v. Roane-Anderson Co.
  64. January 7, 1952· cited 61×
    Sunbeam Corp. v. Civil Service Employees Cooperative Ass'n
  65. June 9, 1952· cited 57×
    Leviton Et Al. v. United States
  66. April 28, 1952· cited 57×
    Madsen v. Kinsella
  67. October 8, 1951· cited 56×
    Moffett v. Commerce Trust Co.
  68. January 28, 1952· cited 55×
    Remmey v. Smith
  69. December 3, 1951· cited 53×
    State of New York v. United States
  70. May 26, 1952· cited 52×
    Besser Manufacturing Co. v. United States
  71. April 7, 1952· cited 51×
    Kaufman v. Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A.
  72. May 12, 1952· cited 49×
    Blackford v. United States
  73. December 3, 1951· cited 49×
    Jennings v. Illinois
  74. April 21, 1952· cited 48×
    Di Silvestro v. Gray
  75. April 21, 1952· cited 48×
    Richfield Oil Corp. v. United States
  76. January 14, 1952· cited 48×
    United States v. Halseth
  77. October 8, 1951· cited 48×
    Nash ex rel. Hashimoto v. MacArthur
  78. November 26, 1951· cited 46×
    Bindczyck v. Finucane
  79. March 3, 1952· cited 43×
    Memphis Steam Laundry Cleaner, Inc. v. Stone
  80. October 8, 1951· cited 41×
    Burns v. Criminal Court
  81. October 8, 1951· cited 41×
    Clougherty v. James Vernor Co.
  82. June 9, 1952· cited 38×
    Schuyler v. Moran
  83. June 9, 1952· cited 35×
    Carpenter v. Erie Railroad
  84. January 28, 1952· cited 35×
    Cities Service Co. v. McGrath
  85. October 8, 1951· cited 35×
    Maske v. Washington, Marlboro & Annapolis Motor Lines, Inc.
  86. March 31, 1952· cited 34×
    Anderson v. Jordan
  87. March 31, 1952· cited 32×
    Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White
  88. May 26, 1952· cited 30×
    Stembridge v. Georgia
  89. January 28, 1952· cited 30×
    Bondholders v. Leigh R. Powell, Jr.
  90. December 11, 1951· cited 29×
    Wilson v. Kitchens
  91. March 10, 1952· cited 28×
    Muth v. Aetna Oil Co.
  92. January 7, 1952· cited 28×
    Inter-City Advertising Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
  93. December 11, 1951· cited 28×
    Gandelman v. Mercantile Insurance
  94. November 26, 1951· cited 28×
    Local 333B, United Marine Division of International Longshoremen's Ass'n v. Battle
  95. October 8, 1951· cited 28×
    Cates v. Haderlein
  96. January 14, 1952· cited 27×
    United States v. Shoso Nii
  97. October 8, 1951· cited 27×
    S. Klein on the Square, Inc. v. Commissioner
  98. April 21, 1952· cited 26×
    Buck v. California
  99. April 7, 1952· cited 25×
    Uebersee Finanz-Korporation, A. G. v. McGrath
  100. May 12, 1952· cited 24×
    Palmer Oil Corp. v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.

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