River Terminals Corp. v. Southwestern Sugar & Molasses Co.’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.2d 36 · 1960
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 1982 · most notably Usery v. Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc. (1976), Compania Anonima Venezolana De Navegacion v. A. J. Perez Export Co. (1962)
34 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 McAllister v. United States · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Stevens v. The White City · Southwestern Sugar and Molasses Co v. River Terminals Corporation · The "Margaret."
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eventual responsibility for the facts as well as for the law,”
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.