Acker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 426 · 1936
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1991 · most notably Permian Basin Area Rate Cases (1968), United States v. Morgan (1941)
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 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.
Relationships
Relies on Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United States · United States v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Acker v. United States
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“regulation cannot be frustrated by the requirement that the rate be made to compensate extravagant or unnecessary costs for these or for any purposes.”
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.