Twin City Pipe Line Co. v. Harding Glass Co.’s Empirical Analysis
283 U.S. 353 · 1931
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 12 district · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 402 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. (1987), Muschany v. United States (1945)
116 federal appellate · 12 district · 167 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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
reviewedHarding Glass Co. v. Twin City Pipe Line Co. (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co. · Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Voigt · Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway Company
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 402 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle that contracts in contravention of public policy are not enforceable should be applied with caution and only in cases plainly within the reasons on which that doctrine rests.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule is that competent persons shall have the utmost liberty of contracting and that their agreements voluntarily and fairly made shall be held valid and enforced in the courts.”
6 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.