Ex parte Bakelite Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 438 · 1929
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 55 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 603 later decisions (91 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. (1982), United States v. Sherwood (1941)
202 federal appellate · 55 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 15 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 Reynolds v. States · David Muskrat v. · In Re Peterson · Webster v. Fall · John Den James Murray and John Kayser v. The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company John Den James B Murray et al.
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 603 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Claims against the United States] may arise in many ways and may be for money, lands, or other things. They all admit of legislative or executive determination, and' yet from their nature are susceptible of determination by courts; but no court can have cognizance of them except as Congress makes specific .provision therefor. Nor do claimants have any right to sue on them unless Congress consents; and Congress may attach to its consent such conditions as it deems proper, even to requiring that the suits be brought in a legislative court specially created to consider them.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The United States Court for China and the consular courts are legislative courts created as a means of carrying into effect powers conferred by the Constitution respecting treaties and commerce with foreign countries. They exercise their functions within particular districts in foreign territory, and are invested with a large measure of jurisdiction over American citizens in those districts. The authority of Congress to create them and to clothe them with such jurisdiction has been upheld by this Court and is well recognized."”
2 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.