United States v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
313 U.S. 409 · 1941
Citation profile
623 federal appellate · 204 district · 630 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,153 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe (1971), Withrow v. Larkin (1975)
623 federal appellate · 204 district · 630 state decisions — followed in 44 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 50 (§ 10 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 44 · 7 U.S.C. § 181 · 7 U.S.C. § 217 · 7 U.S.C. § 222
Relies on Morgan v. United States · Morgan v. United States · United States v. Morgan · Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United States
Cited together with Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Withrow v. Larkin · Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute · Morgan v. United States · Camp v. Pitts
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 2,153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has a quality resembling that of a judicial proceeding.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of judging a particular controversy fairly on the basis of its own circumstances.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Another attack upon the Secretary's order is the conventional objection that the findings were not rooted in proof. To reexamine here with particularity the extensive findings made by the Secretary and to test them by a record of 1340 printed pages and thousands of pages of additional exhibits would itself go a long way to convert a contest before the Secretary into one before the courts.”
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.