Hart Steel Company v. Railroad Supply Company’s Empirical Analysis
244 U.S. 294 · 1917
Citation profile
248 federal appellate · 90 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 707 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Montana v. United States (1979), Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie (1981)
248 federal appellate · 90 district · 100 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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
reviewedRailroad Supply Co. v. Hart Steel Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Russell v. Place · Kessler v. Eldred · Railroad Supply Company v. Elyria Iron & Steel Company · McDonald v. Williams
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 707 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“which should be cordially regarded and enforced by the courts....'”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“leaves our decision in this case [giving it preclusive effect] uncomplicated”
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.