Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations of Kansas’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 552 · 1925
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), Morey v. Doud (1957)
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Smyth v. Ames · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] judgment of reversal is not necessarily an adjudication by the appellate court of any other than the question in terms discussed and decided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the right of the employer on the one hand, and of the employee on the other, to contract about his affairs”
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.