Deaney v. Linen Thread Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Brunetti v. Borough of New Milford (1975), Borough of Matawan v. Monmouth County Board of Taxation (1968)
54 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 42 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering · Social Security Board v. Nierotko
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contradictory, ambiguous, or otherwise without substantial probative value in determining legislative meaning.”
3 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.