Heitmuller v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
256 U.S. 359 · 1921
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 8 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. (1950), U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership (1994)
77 federal appellate · 8 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedHeitmuller v. Stokes (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mills v. Green · California v. San Pablo & Tulare Railroad · United States of America v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft No 289 Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft · Lord v. Veazie
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without fault of the plaintiff in error, the defendant in error, after the proceedings below, . . . caus[ed] the case to become moot”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are at liberty to make such order as is `most consonant to justice, in view of the conditions and circumstances of the case.'”
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.