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Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1968

Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1968 (October 1, 1968 to September 30, 1969), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 990 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (990 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. June 2, 1969· cited 12,640×
    Boykin v. Alabama
  2. June 23, 1969· cited 7,763×
    North Carolina v. Pearce
  3. June 23, 1969· cited 6,512×
    Chimel v. California
  4. January 27, 1969· cited 6,223×
    Spinelli v. United States
  5. June 23, 1969· cited 4,063×
    Benton v. Maryland
  6. February 24, 1969· cited 3,241×
    Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
  7. April 2, 1969· cited 3,200×
    McCarthy v. United States
  8. April 21, 1969· cited 3,119×
    Shapiro v. Thompson
  9. June 9, 1969· cited 2,928×
    Jenkins v. McKeithen
  10. June 2, 1969· cited 2,732×
    Harrington v. California
  11. March 24, 1969· cited 2,470×
    Alderman v. United States
  12. May 19, 1969· cited 2,097×
    Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.
  13. May 26, 1969· cited 1,832×
    McKart v. United States
  14. June 9, 1969· cited 1,826×
    Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
  15. June 9, 1969· cited 1,797×
    Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View
  16. April 7, 1969· cited 1,725×
    Stanley v. Georgia
  17. May 19, 1969· cited 1,672×
    Leary v. United States
  18. May 19, 1969· cited 1,604×
    United States v. King
  19. June 16, 1969· cited 1,586×
    National Labor Relations Board v. Gissel Packing Co.
  20. October 15, 1968· cited 1,576×
    Williams v. Rhodes
  21. April 23, 1969· cited 1,468×
    Frazier v. Cupp
  22. April 23, 1969· cited 1,385×
    Davis v. Mississippi
  23. June 9, 1969· cited 1,379×
    Brandenburg v. Ohio
  24. February 24, 1969· cited 1,359×
    Johnson v. Avery
  25. March 10, 1969· cited 1,269×
    Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
  26. May 26, 1969· cited 1,237×
    Desist v. United States
  27. March 4, 1969· cited 1,203×
    Golden v. Zwickler
  28. November 12, 1968· cited 1,145×
    Epperson v. Arkansas
  29. January 20, 1969· cited 1,132×
    Smith v. Hooey
  30. February 24, 1969· cited 1,076×
    Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham
  31. April 1, 1969· cited 1,048×
    Foster v. California
  32. April 21, 1969· cited 977×
    Watts v. United States
  33. May 5, 1969· cited 955×
    Snyder v. Harris
  34. May 5, 1969· cited 955×
    Harris v. Nelson
  35. October 14, 1968· cited 921×
    Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.
  36. October 14, 1968· cited 902×
    Peyton v. Rowe
  37. May 5, 1969· cited 896×
    McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago
  38. November 25, 1968· cited 896×
    United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc.
  39. October 14, 1968· cited 887×
    Allen v. State Board of Elections
  40. January 27, 1969· cited 850×
    Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church
  41. April 28, 1969· cited 789×
    National Labor Relations Board v. Wyman-Gordon Co.
  42. January 27, 1969· cited 764×
    Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc.
  43. June 16, 1969· cited 714×
    Moore v. Ogilvie
  44. October 14, 1968· cited 703×
    Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital
  45. October 14, 1968· cited 697×
    Powell v. Texas
  46. June 9, 1969· cited 669×
    Bingler v. Johnson
  47. October 14, 1968· cited 668×
    Roberts v. Russell
  48. March 25, 1969· cited 661×
    Orozco v. Texas
  49. April 21, 1969· cited 632×
    Street v. New York
  50. February 24, 1969· cited 628×
    Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Casualty Co.
  51. June 2, 1969· cited 626×
    O'Callahan v. Parker
  52. November 19, 1968· cited 596×
    Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne
  53. May 5, 1969· cited 553×
    Halliday v. United States
  54. June 16, 1969· cited 551×
    Lear, Inc. v. Adkins
  55. January 20, 1969· cited 547×
    United States v. Augenblick
  56. April 7, 1969· cited 546×
    Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp.
  57. March 24, 1969· cited 532×
    Kaufman v. United States
  58. February 24, 1969· cited 498×
    Oestereich v. Selective Service System Local Board No. 11
  59. June 9, 1969· cited 492×
    Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
  60. May 5, 1969· cited 492×
    Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.
  61. April 2, 1969· cited 477×
    Boulden v. Holman
  62. June 2, 1969· cited 453×
    Rodriquez v. United States
  63. January 14, 1969· cited 448×
    Glover v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
  64. October 14, 1968· cited 433×
    DeStefano v. Woods
  65. May 19, 1969· cited 404×
    Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
  66. March 10, 1969· cited 391×
    Gregory v. City of Chicago
  67. January 20, 1969· cited 355×
    Hunter v. Erickson
  68. October 14, 1968· cited 355×
    McConnell v. Rhay
  69. January 14, 1969· cited 346×
    Berger v. California
  70. March 24, 1969· cited 325×
    Bernard v. Beneficial Finance Co.
  71. March 24, 1969· cited 284×
    Giordano v. United States
  72. November 18, 1968· cited 274×
    Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road
  73. May 5, 1969· cited 260×
    Kramer v. Caribbean Mills, Inc.
  74. June 2, 1969· cited 259×
    United States v. Skelly Oil Co.
  75. April 7, 1969· cited 235×
    Rhodes v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.
  76. October 14, 1968· cited 234×
    Arsenault v. Massachusetts
  77. June 16, 1969· cited 231×
    Noyd v. Bond
  78. January 13, 1969· cited 229×
    United States v. Nardello
  79. June 2, 1969· cited 222×
    Jenkins v. Delaware
  80. January 15, 1969· cited 219×
    United States v. Container Corporation of America
  81. May 19, 1969· cited 204×
    Gregg v. United States
  82. January 27, 1969· cited 202×
    Robinson v. New York
  83. April 1, 1969· cited 198×
    Federal Marine Terminals, Inc. v. Burnside Shipping Co.
  84. April 28, 1969· cited 196×
    United States v. Article of Drug . . . Bacto-Unidisk
  85. March 24, 1969· cited 194×
    Taglianetti v. United States
  86. June 2, 1969· cited 193×
    United States v. Montgomery County Board of Education
  87. May 19, 1969· cited 193×
    United States v. Covington
  88. April 1, 1969· cited 191×
    Scofield v. National Labor Relations Board
  89. June 16, 1969· cited 190×
    Perkins v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal.
  90. April 21, 1969· cited 185×
    Coates v. Securities & Exchange Commission
  91. April 7, 1969· cited 185×
    Wells v. Rockefeller
  92. January 20, 1969· cited 180×
    Beaty v. M. S. Steel Co.
  93. December 16, 1968· cited 174×
    Clark v. Gabriel
  94. January 20, 1969· cited 173×
    National Labor Relations Board v. Strong
  95. May 26, 1969· cited 170×
    Crane v. Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Co.
  96. December 9, 1968· cited 161×
    Fuller v. Alaska
  97. March 10, 1969· cited 159×
    Citizen Publishing Co. v. United States
  98. January 20, 1969· cited 157×
    Gardner v. California
  99. February 24, 1969· cited 151×
    Brocker v. Brocker
  100. June 23, 1969· cited 145×
    Shipley v. California

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