Shaw v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 967 · 1945
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1975
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
Applies 44 U.S.C. § 307
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · United States v. Murray · Nix v. James · Kriebel 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the gasoline purchased by the agents was purchased for the purpose of providing evidence of law violation, does not remove the agents from their classification as consumers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Gaines
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.