Carnegie Steel Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 156 · 1916
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Columbus Ry Power Light Co v. City of Columbus Ohio (1919), 69 F. Supp. 409 - George A. Fuller Co. v. United States (1947)
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 18 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 Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore · United States v. Gleason · Lovejoy v. Murray · Gegiow v. Uhl · Jacksonville Ry Nav Co v. Hooper
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would seem that the very essence of the promise of a contract to deliver articles is to procure or make them.... [The contract] would have no sense or incentive, no assurance of fulfillment, otherwise; and a delay resulting from the absence of such ability is not of the same kind enumerated in the contract— is not a cause extraneous to it and independent of the engagements and exertions of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unavoidable causes, such as fires, storms, labor strikes, action of the United States, etc.”
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.