Walter v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
287 F. 41 · 1923
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1982 · most notably United States v. Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co. (1936), Heiner v. Crosby (1928)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certainly meant that not only must the market price be ascertained by sales, but that sales so made, the circumstances under which they were made, the subject-matter of the sales, all the attendant circumstances, were to be considered to determine whether such sales served to evidence not alone a market sale, but the fair price which Congress said should be the statutory start or base from which subsequent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“since every word used by Congress must be given due effect in the construction of this widely applicable statute, for obviously, while a stock might be bought and sold - and so marketed - and might thus be said to evidence some market price, yet it is obvious that Congress by the addition of the words”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“ascertaining the gain derived from the sale,”
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.