Mercado v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.2d 554 · 1949
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1996
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
Relies on Zimberg v. United States · Zimberg v. United States · E. Anthony & Sons, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowles v. Krodel · Beneficial Industrial Loan Co. v. Williams
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Willfullness in violating a regulatory statute implies not so much malevolent design as action with knowledge that one's acts are prescribed or with careless disregard for their lawfulness or unlawfulness. 173 F.2d 554, 555 (1949) (Price ceiling violation).”
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.