The Lake Monroe’s Empirical Analysis
250 U.S. 246 · 1919
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 52 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (1922), United States v. United Continental Tuna Corp. (1976)
75 federal appellate · 52 district · 16 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.
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every vessel pm-chased, chartered, or leased from the board shall, unless otherwise authorized by the board, be operated only under such registry or enrollment and license. Such vessels while employed solely as merchant vessels shall be subject to all laws, regulations, and liabilities governing merchant vessels, whether the United States be interested therein as owner, in whole or in part, or hold any mortgage, lien, or other interest therein.” 7 U. S. Comp. St. § 8146e, p. 8651.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The emergency shipping legislation [Act June 15, 1917] evidently was enacted in the expectation that the President would employ the Shipping Board and the Fleet Corporation as his agencies to exercise new powers, for the Fleet Corporation was mentioned in the act, and it was known to be but an arm of the Board.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all laws, regulations, and liabilities governing merchant vessels.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.