Leonard & Leonard v. Earle’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 392 · 1929
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Walling v. James V. Reuter, Inc. (1944), Allied American Mutual Fire Insurance v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles (1959)
4 federal appellate · 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · McGrain v. Daugherty · French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · Browning v. City of Waycross
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.
“used as greatly to advantage the business of packing”
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.