Territory of Alaska v. American Can Co.’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 493 · 1957
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1978
10 federal appellate · 3 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
Relationships
Relies on Trailmobile Co. v. Whirls · Bridges v. United States · Townsend v. Little · Ainsworth v. Bryant · South Carolina v. Gaillard
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Effect of repeals or amendments. The repeal or amendment of any statute shall not affect any . . . right accruing or accrued or any action or proceeding had or commenced prior to such repeal or amendment; . . . but the same may be enforced, continued, sustained . . . under the repealing or amendatory statute ....”
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.