Swift & Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
276 U.S. 311 · 1928
Citation profile
422 federal appellate · 93 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,009 later decisions (77 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. W. T. Grant Co. (1953), Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962)
422 federal appellate · 93 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Massachusetts v. Mellon · Swift Company v. United States · Fair v. Kohler Die & Specialty Co. · Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange
Cited together with United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · United States v. Swift & Co. · Nashville St Ry Co v. United States · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · United States v. Armour & Co.
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 1,009 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a decree, which appears by the record to have been rendered by consent, is always affirmed, without considering the merits of the cause.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a suit for an injunction deals primarily, not with past violations, but with threatened future ones; and ... an injunction may issue to prevent future wrong, although no right has yet been violated”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Decrees entered by consent have been reviewed upon appeal ... where there was a claim of lack of actual consent to the decree as entered ....”
5 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.