Sternberg Dredging Co. v. Walling’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.2d 678 · 1946
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Rice v. United States (1966), Bruhn's Freezer Meats of Chicago, Inc. v. United States Department of Agriculture (1971)
21 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett · International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty · Warner v. Goltra · Helena Glendale Ferry Co. v. Walling
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.
““In the interpretation of a statute its words are to be taken according to the meaning given them in common useage, unless to do so produces an absurd result or one which defeats the purpose for which the Act was passed.””
2 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.