Steelman v. All Continent Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
301 U.S. 278 · 1937
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 284 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States (1976), Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. (1940)
135 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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
reviewedAll Continent Corp. v. Steelman (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Isaacs v. Hobbs Tie & Timber Co. · Straton v. New
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 284 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Make such orders, issue such process, and enter such judgments, in addition to those specifically provided for, as may be necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this Act: Provided, however, That an injunction to restrain a court may be issued by the judge only . . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What he seeks is an injunction directed to a suitor, and not to any court, upon the ground that the suitor is misusing a jurisdiction which by hypothesis exists, and converting it by such misuse into an instrument of wrong. * * * We are unable to yield assent to the statement of the court below that `the restraint of a proper party is legally tantamount to the restraint of the court itself.' The reality of the distinction has illustration in a host of cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At present our inquiry halts with the discovery of probable cause for preserving the estate from dismemberment or waste through a precipitate decision. If such cause has been made out, we think the court of bankruptcy has been armed with abundant power to preserve the status quo until there can be an adequate trial with all the necessary parties and a judgment on the merits.”
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.