Delaware Co v. Rellstab’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 1 · 1928
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2003 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Ex parte United States (1932)
78 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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
reviewedDelaware, L. & W. R. Co. v. Rellstab (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Throckmorton · McClellan v. Carland · United States v. Mayer · Bronson v. Schulten · John Simmons Co. v. Grier Bros.
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the Court was without jurisdiction to vacate the judgment, mandamus is the appropriate remedy . ****** But it is said that the granting of the writ of mandamus is discretionary and it is implied that if we are of opinion that the Circuit Court of Appeals was mistaken in denying its power to grant the writ, that court still might deny it on the ground that injustice would be done if the judgment were allowed to stand. But neither Court would be warranted in declaring the judgment unjust after it had become unassailable . . . . [ 276 U.S. at 5 , 48 S.Ct. at 203-04 .]”
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.