Cawley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
272 F.2d 443 · 1959
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1984 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. (1968), United States v. Article of Drug . . . Bacto-Unidisk (1969)
33 federal appellate ·
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 Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor · Aguilar v. Standard Oil Co. · Markham v. Cabell · Ahmed v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * unless [the statute's words] explicitly forbid it, the purpose of a statutory provision is the best test of the meaning of the words chosen * * *.”
3 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.