Swift & Co. v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 615 · 1951
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 1973
13 federal appellate · 8 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 Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. · Mosheuvel v. District of Columbia · Landrum v. Roddy · Owens v. Union Pacific Railroad · Miner v. Connecticut River Railroad
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An examination of only a small number of the cases which have dealt with these three principles leads one into a maze of confusion and contradiction, from which one emerges only with a conviction that the decisions are irreconcilable.”
1 later decision 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.