Supreme Court Opinions — October Term 1978
Most-cited Supreme Court opinions filed in October Term 1978 (October 1, 1978 to September 30, 1979), from CourtListener's bulk data. CourtListener's bulk data has 1,217 records for this term with at least one citation or a syllabus (1,217 with at least one citation, 0 with a syllabus, counted separately); up to 100 of them, ordered by citation count, are listed below.
- May 14, 1979· cited 11,438×Bell v. Wolfish
- January 15, 1979· cited 6,103×Rakas v. Illinois
- June 26, 1979· cited 5,659×Baker v. McCollan
- March 27, 1979· cited 5,549×Delaware v. Prouse
- January 9, 1979· cited 4,229×Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore
- March 5, 1979· cited 4,123×Quern v. Jordan
- February 21, 1979· cited 3,653×Butner v. United States
- June 5, 1979· cited 3,633×Dunaway v. New York
- February 22, 1979· cited 3,633×Montana v. United States
- June 18, 1979· cited 3,585×Sandstrom v. Montana
- October 2, 1978· cited 3,324×Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City
- May 29, 1979· cited 3,299×Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional Complex
- June 5, 1979· cited 3,039×Davis v. Passman
- April 30, 1979· cited 3,004×Addington v. Texas
- May 14, 1979· cited 2,763×Cannon v. University of Chicago
- June 25, 1979· cited 2,679×Brown v. Texas
- January 9, 1979· cited 2,373×Duren v. Missouri
- June 20, 1979· cited 2,305×Smith v. Maryland
- January 15, 1979· cited 2,261×Hutto v. Finney
- June 5, 1979· cited 2,187×Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
- April 24, 1979· cited 2,172×North Carolina v. Butler
- June 5, 1979· cited 2,028×Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union
- June 4, 1979· cited 1,990×County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
- June 20, 1979· cited 1,888×Califano v. Yamasaki
- June 18, 1979· cited 1,881×Touche Ross & Co. v. Redington
- June 4, 1979· cited 1,838×Brown v. Felsen
- March 27, 1979· cited 1,768×County of Los Angeles v. Davis
- April 17, 1979· cited 1,761×Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood
- June 25, 1979· cited 1,685×Michigan v. DeFillippo
- October 2, 1978· cited 1,668×United States v. Scott
- June 4, 1979· cited 1,568×United States v. Batchelder
- May 14, 1979· cited 1,521×Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization
- June 20, 1979· cited 1,484×Arkansas v. Sanders
- June 4, 1979· cited 1,450×United States v. Addonizio
- February 22, 1979· cited 1,449×Vance v. Bradley
- April 18, 1979· cited 1,386×Chrysler Corp. v. Brown
- June 11, 1979· cited 1,381×Southeastern Community College v. Davis
- June 11, 1979· cited 1,323×Moore v. Sims
- June 11, 1979· cited 1,277×Reiter v. Sonotone Corp.
- July 2, 1979· cited 1,226×Gannett Co. v. DePasquale
- April 2, 1979· cited 1,102×United States v. Kimbell Foods, Inc.
- April 18, 1979· cited 1,085×Herbert v. Lando
- June 20, 1979· cited 1,078×Parham v. J. R.
- October 2, 1978· cited 1,074×Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Assn.
- March 5, 1979· cited 1,061×Scott v. Illinois
- May 21, 1979· cited 1,059×United States v. Timmreck
- January 9, 1979· cited 1,018×Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District
- June 11, 1979· cited 1,006×Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny
- April 18, 1979· cited 982×Douglas Oil Co. of Cal. v. Petrol Stops Northwest
- January 9, 1979· cited 971×Colautti v. Franklin
- October 2, 1978· cited 924×Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus
- October 2, 1978· cited 910×Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
- April 16, 1979· cited 891×Lake Country Estates, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
- April 13, 1979· cited 883×United States v. Caceres
- October 2, 1978· cited 846×Exxon Corp. v. Governor of Maryland
- February 22, 1979· cited 844×Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party
- June 26, 1979· cited 840×Leroy v. Great Western United Corp.
- January 22, 1979· cited 837×Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo
- July 2, 1979· cited 834×Jones v. Wolf
- June 27, 1979· cited 812×United Steelworkers of America v. Weber
- October 2, 1978· cited 761×Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation
- April 24, 1979· cited 760×Hughes v. Oklahoma
- June 25, 1979· cited 746×MacKey v. Montrym
- June 26, 1979· cited 738×Hutchinson v. Proxmire
- April 24, 1979· cited 738×Caban v. Mohammed
- March 5, 1979· cited 714×Orr v. Orr
- May 21, 1979· cited 712×Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans
- December 5, 1978· cited 702×United States v. Ceccolini
- April 17, 1979· cited 694×Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- March 21, 1979· cited 688×National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop
- May 29, 1979· cited 672×Green v. Georgia
- June 25, 1979· cited 653×Barry v. Barchi
- July 2, 1979· cited 651×Rose v. Mitchell
- June 11, 1979· cited 642×Lo-Ji Sales, Inc. v. New York
- March 26, 1979· cited 641×New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer
- December 18, 1978· cited 640×Michigan v. Doran
- April 18, 1979· cited 639×Dalia v. United States
- January 16, 1979· cited 615×Thor Power Tool Co. v. Commissioner
- May 29, 1979· cited 590×Parker v. Randolph
- November 13, 1978· cited 589×Board of Trustees of Keene State College v. Sweeney
- July 2, 1979· cited 573×Washington v. Washington State Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Assn.
- February 28, 1979· cited 571×Group Life & Health Insurance v. Royal Drug Co.
- March 21, 1979· cited 544×National Muffler Dealers Assn., Inc. v. United States
- January 16, 1979· cited 536×International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel
- March 5, 1979· cited 510×Nevada v. Hall
- October 2, 1978· cited 509×Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham
- January 22, 1979· cited 478×Union Pacific Railroad v. Sheehan
- December 11, 1978· cited 468×Corbitt v. New Jersey
- May 29, 1979· cited 454×International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Foust
- February 26, 1979· cited 453×Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation
- June 26, 1979· cited 452×Smith v. Daily Mail Publishing Co.
- June 26, 1979· cited 442×Wolston v. Reader's Digest Assn., Inc.
- May 14, 1979· cited 439×Ford Motor Co. (Chicago Stamping Plant) v. National Labor Relations Board
- May 14, 1979· cited 435×Burks v. Lasker
- December 11, 1978· cited 430×Lalli v. Lalli
- June 18, 1979· cited 426×Helstoski v. Meanor
- June 27, 1979· cited 424×Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
- May 14, 1979· cited 420×Leis v. Flynt
- April 16, 1979· cited 415×Friedman v. Rogers
- June 18, 1979· cited 398×United States v. Rutherford
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