Escher v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 379 · 1930
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hobbs v. McLean · Tate v. Escher · U. S. Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corp. v. Harwood
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not perceive even in 1928 anything that clearly suggests treating the property in the hands of the Custodian as one great trust, to be called on to bear the expenses of administration, as one homogeneous whole. On the contrary the directions are.explicit that the expenses charged to a given property are those incurred in getting or protecting it, or at least others similarly due from the same owner.””
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.