Guiseppi v. Walling’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.2d 608 · 1944
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 8 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Gemsco, Inc. v. Walling (1945), United States v. Oates (1977)
101 federal appellate · 8 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 501 · 29 U.S.C. § 210
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Yakus v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · United States v. Darby
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.”
44 later decisions 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.