Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co.’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 131 · 1937
Citation profile
387 federal appellate · 29 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 654 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co. (1944), Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. (1940)
387 federal appellate · 29 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Benz · United States v. Mayer · Studley v. Boylston National Bank · United States v. Mayer
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 654 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if no intervening rights will be prejudiced by its action”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as precluding further consideration of the petition”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“before rights have vested on the faith of the action’’); Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co., 300 U.S. 131 , 137, 57 S.Ct. 382 , 385, 81 L.Ed. 557 (1937) (bankruptcy court may grant rehearing”
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.