Danciger v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
248 U.S. 319 · 1919
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2003 · most notably Stafford v. Wallace (1922), Miller v. Robertson (1924)
35 federal appellate · 5 district · 29 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 Rhodes v. State of Iowa · Vance v. W. A. Vandercook Co. · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. F. W. Cook Brewing Co. · American Express Company v. State of Iowa · United States v. Mescall
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would be not merely to depart from the primary rule that words are to be taken in their ordinary sense, but to narrow the operation of the statute to an extent that would seriously imperil the accomplishment of its purpose.”
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.