United States v. Cerecedo Hermanos y Compañia’s Empirical Analysis
209 U.S. 337 · 1908
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 40 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 300 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Anderson (1926), Zemel v. Rusk (1965)
115 federal appellate · 40 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 United States v. Healey · Robertson v. Downing · United States v. G. Falk & Brother
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 300 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the meaning of a statute is doubtful great weight should be given to the construction placed upon it by the department charged with its execution.” United States v. Hermanos y Compañia, 209 U. S. 337 , 28 Sup. Ct. 532 , 52 L. Ed. 821 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The re-enactment by Congress, without change, of a statute, which had previously received long-continued executive construction, is an adoption by Congress of such construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.