Wheeler v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
280 U.S. 49 · 1929
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1994 · most notably Holmberg v. Armbrecht (1946), Russell v. Todd (1940)
54 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 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
reviewedGreene v. Wheeler (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Casey v. Galli · Rankin v. Barton · Terry v. Tubman · Greene v. Wheeler
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When so important a grant of power contained in the prototype is left out from the copy it is almost impossible to attribute the omission to anything but design, or to believe that it left to very attenuated implications what the model before it so clearly expressed.”
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.