United States v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 481 · 1956
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably United States v. Annunziato (1961), United States v. Carter (1963)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 United States v. Ryan · United States v. Ryan · Marande v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. · Stone v. Chicago
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems reasonable to impute to Congress an intent to outlaw all payments, with certain narrow statutory exceptions, from employer to union official.... `... True, it then covers gifts, however trifling and innocuous, but we can see no reason on that account to narrow its scope. The penalties prescribed make it apparent that they could not have been meant as sanctions for heinous offenses; and Congress may have wished to put a stop to the practice, even on occasions inconsiderable and harmless in themselves, rather than to make verbal distinctions that would be troublesome in application.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The propriety of any gift to a fiduciary with whose beneficiary the donor is apt to come into competition, is surely open to scrutiny, and it is a reasonable way of dealing with the evils that may be involved to taboo all such rather than to undertake the difficult task of ascertaining the motive in every case.” 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The chief, if not only, purpose of the section was to put , a stop to practices that, if unchecked, might impair the impartiality of union “representatives,” to prevent employers from tampering with the loyality of union officials, and disloyal union officials from levying tribute upon employers.”
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.