Eastern Transp Co v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably United States v. Michel (1931), 132 S. Ct. 1441 - Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper (2012)
1 federal appellate · 21 district · 9 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Lake Monroe · Di Santo v. Pennsylvania · Blamberg Bros. v. United States · James Shewan & Sons, Inc. v. United States · Nahmeh 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sovereignty of the United States raises a presumption against its suability unless it is clearly shown; nor should a court enlarge its liability to suit conferred beyond what the language requires.””
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.