Fleming v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
264 U.S. 29 · 1924
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co (1932), Brinkerhoff-Faris Trust & Savings Co. v. Hill (1930)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Tidal Oil Co. v. Flanagan · Fleming v. Fleming
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he effect of the subsequent decisions is not to make a new law but only to hold that the law always meant what the court now says it means.”
5 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.