United States of America v. Adams Express Company’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 381 · 1913
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1996 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), United States v. a & P Trucking Co. (1958)
8 federal appellate · 6 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 Logan v. United States · United States v. Wiltberger · Great Southern Fire Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · United States v. James a Patten
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the semicorporate standing that these companies already had locally as well as in the popular mind.”
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.