United States v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
311 U.S. 60 · 1940
Citation profile
359 federal appellate · 67 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 797 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill (1947), Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. (1984)
359 federal appellate · 67 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedStewart v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Deputy v. du Pont · Old Colony Co v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Helvering v. New York Trust Co. · Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka
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 797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“later act can therefore be regarded as a legislative interpretation of the earlier act in the sense that it aids in ascertaining the meaning of the words as used in their contemporary setting”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an officer or agency of the United States to whom no administrative authority has been delegated cannot estop the United States even by an affirmative undertaking to waive or surrender a public right”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ll acts in pari materia are to be taken together, as if they were one law.”
3 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.