Swiss Nat Ins Co v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 42 · 1925
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably United States v. S S White Dental Mfg Co of Pennsylvania (1927), Worthington v. United States (1948)
43 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 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 Paul v. Virginia · Central Union Trust Co of New York v. Garvan Merrill · Stoehr v. Wallace · Commercial Trust Co of New Jursey v. Miller · Western Turf Ass'n v. Greenberg
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word `enemy' * * * of course refers to the person who or corporation which fulfilled the definition of an enemy during the war.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends upon the intent to be gathered from the context and the general purpose of the whole legislation in which it occurs.”
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.