United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 425 · 1924
Citation profile
808 federal appellate · 15 district · 148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,494 later decisions (98 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Dandridge v. Williams (1970), Link v. Wabash Railroad (1962)
808 federal appellate · 15 district · 148 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor · Union Tool Co. v. Wilson · Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. v. United States · Interstate Commece Commission v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Cited together with Morley Const Co v. Maryland Casualty Co · Langnes v. Green · Dandridge v. Williams · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Ludwig · Jaffke v. Dunham
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 1,494 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he appellee may, without taking a cross-appeal, urge in support of a decree any matter appearing in the record, although his argument may involve an attack upon the reasoning of the lower court or an insistence upon matter overlooked or ignored by it.”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“personal jurisdiction ... can be waived at any stage of a proceeding and ordinarily are waived by failure to take a cross-appeal”
2 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.