United States v. Shelby Iron Co.’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 571 · 1927
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1980 · most notably Hormel v. Helvering (1941), Commonwealth v. Olivo (1975)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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
reviewedUnited States v. Shelby Iron Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Peugh v. Davis · Robinson v. Farrelly · Moses Bros. v. Johnson · Lowery v. Peterson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law imputes knowledge, when opportunity and interest, (combined) with reasonable care, would necessarily impart it.”
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.