Los Angeles Brush Mfg Corporation v. James’s Empirical Analysis
272 U.S. 701 · 1927
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Will v. United States (1967)
124 federal appellate · 9 district · 10 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 Virginia v. Rives · Wayman v. Southard · Di Santo v. Pennsylvania · Ex Parte Nathaniel Crane and Samuel Kelly v. Nathaniel Crane
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the subject concerns the enforcement of the . . . [r]ules which by law it is the duty of this Court to formulate and put into force,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“writs of mandamus in cases, . . . warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed . . . under the authority of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had been productive of unnecessary expense and burden to the litigants and caused much delay in their disposition.”
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.