In Re Eastern Transp. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1985 · most notably University of Texas Medical Branch v. United States (1977), City of New York v. Quanta Resources Corp. (1984)
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. Atlantic Refining Co. · The Manhattan · United States v. Hall · In re Highlands Nav. Corp. · United States v. Burns
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * And further, the removal of any structures or parts of structures erected in violation of the provisions of the said sections [referring among others to Sec. 403] may be enforced by the injunction of any district court exercising jurisdiction in any district in which such structures may exist, and proper proceedings to this end may be instituted under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It shall not be lawful * * * to voluntarily or carelessly sink, or permit or cause to be sunk, vessels or other craft in navigable channels * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not affirmatively authorized by Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.