Bridges v. Wixon’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.2d 927 · 1944
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1981
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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
Relies on Mooney v. Holohan · Schneiderman v. United States · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · United States Bilokumsky v. Tod · Baumgartner v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at the time of entering the United States, or has been at any time thereafter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bridges v. Wixon“vicious and inhumane practices toward longshoremen,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bridges v. Wixon“notwithstanding any other provisions of law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bridges v. Wixon
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.