West v. Standard Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
278 U.S. 200 · 1929
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 15 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1996 · most notably Switchmen's Union of North America v. National Mediation Board (1943), Wilbur v. United States ex rel. Kadrie (1930)
59 federal appellate · 15 district · 17 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
reviewedWork v. Standard Oil Co. (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Knight v. United Land Ass'n · Johnson v. Towsley · Cameron v. United States
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The broad power of control and supervision conferred upon the Secretary `does not clothe him with any discretion to enlarge or curtail the rights of the grantee, nor to substitute his judgment for the will of Congress as manifested in the granting act.' Payne v. Central Pacific Railway Co., 255 U.S. 228 , 236, 41 S.Ct. 314, 65 L. Ed. 598.”
3 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.