United States v. American Linseed Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
262 U.S. 371 · 1923
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably United Mine Workers v. Pennington (1965), United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1978)
64 federal appellate · 30 district · 10 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 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. United States · Swift Company v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Addyston Pipe Steel Company v. United States
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““With intimate knowledge of the affairs of other producers, and * * * proclaiming themselves competitors, the subscribers went forth to deal with widely separated and unorganized customers, necessarily ignorant of the true conditions.””
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.