Hale v. Bimco Trading, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 375 · 1939
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 9 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Toucey v. New York Life Insurance (1941), Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Richman Bros. (1955)
59 federal appellate · 9 district · 26 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 Brown v. Maryland · Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor · Chase Nat Bank v. City of Norwalk Ohio · Territory of New Mexico Ex Rel McLean Company v. Denver Rio Grande Railroad Company
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strangers to the state court litigation,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an historical mechanism (Act of March 2, 1793, 1 Stat. 334, 335) for achieving harmony in one phase of our complicated federalism by avoiding needless friction between two systems of courts having potential jurisdiction over the same subject-matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That no Florida cement needs any inspection while all foreign cement requires inspection at a cost of fifteen cents per hundredweight is too violent an assumption to justify the discrimination here disclosed.”
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.