Pittway Corporation v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.3d 932 · 1996
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Kariotis v. Navistar International Transportation Corp. (1997), United States of America v. Balint (2000)
13 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Caminetti v. United States · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · First Chicago Corp. v. Commissioner
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'literal application of a statute will produce a result demonstrably at odds with the intentions of its drafters.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The plain meaning of legislation should be conclusive.”
1 later decision 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.