Behn, Meyer & Co. v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 457 · 1925
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1984 · most notably Clark v. Uebersee Finanz-Korp. (1947), Becker Steel Co of America v. Cummings (1935)
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Peck v. Jenness · Market Company v. Hoffman · Central Union Trust Co of New York v. Garvan Merrill · Stoehr v. Wallace · Commercial Trust Co of New Jursey v. Miller
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Any individual, partnership, or other body of individuals, of any nationality, resident within the territory (including that occupied by the military and naval forces) of any nation with which the United States is at war, or resident outside the United States and doing business within such territory, and any corporation incorporated within such territory of any nation with which the United States is at war or incorporated within any country other than the United States and doing business within such territory. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“clothe(d) the President with definitely restricted powers in respect of seizing property of those designated as enemies,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tagle v. Regan
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.