Re Merchants' Stock & Grain Company et Als’s Empirical Analysis
223 U.S. 639 · 1912
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2001 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), Penfield Co of California v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1947)
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMerchants' Stock & Grain Co. v. Board of Trade (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Worden v. Searls · Doyle v. London Guarantee & Accident Co. · In the Matter of the Petition of the Christensen Engineering Company for a Writ of Mandamus
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The classification then depends upon the question as to whether the punishment is punitive in vindication of the court’s authority or whether it is remedial by way of a coercive imprisonment or a compensatory fine payable to the complainant.””
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.