Detroit Trust Co. v. The Thomas Barlum’s Empirical Analysis
293 U.S. 21 · 1934
Citation profile
175 federal appellate · 39 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 453 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co (1935), Garrett v. Co (1942)
175 federal appellate · 39 district · 13 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
reviewedThe Thomas Barlum (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Crowell v. Benson · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Panama Co v. Johnson · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · Western Fuel Co. v. Garcia
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 453 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as experience or changing conditions might require,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`preferred mortgages' are carefully defined in the detailed provisions of subsec. D”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a proper conception of maritime concerns.”
5 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.