United States v. California’s Empirical Analysis
297 U.S. 175 · 1936
Citation profile
283 federal appellate · 40 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 748 later decisions (110 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989), United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947)
283 federal appellate · 40 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedCalifornia v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Houston East West Texas Railway Company v. United States · Murray v. Wilson Distilling Co. · Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 748 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[This] presumption is an aid to consistent construction of statutes of the enacting sovereign when their purpose is in doubt, but it does not require that the aim of a statute fairly to be inferred be disregarded because not explicitly stated.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“corporate character or declared purposes”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad”
2 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.