Swayne & Hoyt, Ltd. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 297 · 1937
Citation profile
182 federal appellate · 52 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 496 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Hirabayashi v. United States (1943), Dobson v. Commissioner (1943)
182 federal appellate · 52 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. International Coal Mining Company · United States Navigation Co. v. Cunard Steamship Co. · Milliken v. United States · Hecht v. Malley · Graham v. Goodcell
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 496 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such determinations will not be set aside by courts if there is evidence to support them. Even though, upon a consideration of all the evidence, a court might reach a different conclusion, it is not authorized to substitute its own for the administrative judgment.” Swayne & Hoyt Ltd. v. United States, 300 U.S. 297, 304 , 57 S.Ct. 478, 481 , 81 L.Ed. 659 (1937).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress may ratify agency conduct `giving the force of law to official action unauthorized when taken.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is unnecessary now to pass on the efficacy of the transfer by Executive Order, for we are of opinion that as Congress itself had power to abolish the Shipping Board and to require its functions to be performed by the Secretary, it had power to recognize and validate his performance of those functions even though their attempted transfer by Executive Order was ineffectual. “It is well settled that Congress may, by enactment not otherwise inappropriate, ‘ratify .... acts which it might have authorized.’ ” (Authorities)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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