United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
215 F.2d 217 · 1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2018
2 federal appellate ·
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. California · Pacific Portland Cement Co. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. · State of Washington Stimson Lumber Co v. Kuykendall · Bauer v. Clark · Fleming v. Chicago Cartage Co.
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.
“[Common carrier] status is not changed by the fact that the carrier is rendering a specialized service.”
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.