Russell Motor Car Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 514 · 1923
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Gustafson v. Alloyd Co. (1995)
57 federal appellate · 23 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Railroad Commission v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad · Hamilton v. Rathbone · State of Virginia v. State of Tennessee
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not an invariable rule, for [a] word may have a character of its own not to be submerged by its association.” Russell Motor Car Co. v. United States, 261 U.S. 514 , 519, 43 S.Ct. 428 , 430, 67 L.Ed. 778 (1923). As noted,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ In fixing just compensation the court must consider the value of the contract at the time of its cancellation, * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) To modify, suspend,-cancel or requisition any existing or future contract for the building, production or purchase of ships or material.”
3 later decisions 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.