Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 1 · 1941
Citation profile
633 federal appellate · 155 district · 177 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,615 later decisions (96 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Washington v. Davis (1976), Hanna v. Plumer (1965)
633 federal appellate · 155 district · 177 state decisions — followed in 34 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
reviewedSibbach v. Wilson & Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Union Pac Ry Co v. Botsford · Mahler v. Eby · Wayman v. Southard · Kessler v. Strecker
Cited together with Hanna v. Plumer · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Buckley v. Valeo · Mississippi Pub Corporation v. Murphree · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp.
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 1,615 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judicial process for enforcing rights and duties recognized by substantive law and for justly administering remedy and redress for disregard or infraction of them.”
46 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress has undoubted power to regulate the practice and procedure of the federal courts, and may exercise that power by delegating to this or other federal courts authority to make rules not inconsistent with the statutes or Constitution of the United States.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Supreme Court ... shall have the power to prescribe by general rules .,. the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions, and the practice and procedure in civil actions at law. Said rules shall not abridge, enlarge nor modify the substantive rights of any party.”
9 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.