Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 125 · 1943
Citation profile
348 federal appellate · 85 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 748 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007), United States v. Philadelphia National Bank (1963)
348 federal appellate · 85 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedOverstreet v. North Shore Corp. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Federal Trade Commission v. Bunte Bros.
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 748 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the purpose of the Act was to extend federal control in this field throughout the farthest reaches of the channels of interstate commerce.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Commerce’ means trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or from any State to any place outside thereof. $ # s}s # s|e “ ‘Goods’ means goods (including ships and marine equipment), wares, products, commodities, merchandise, or articles or subjects of commerce of any character, or any part or ingredient thereof, * * *. “ ‘Produced’ means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any State; and for the purposes of this Act an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the production of goods [for commerce] if such employee was employed in producing, manufacturing, mining, handling, transporting, or in any other manner working on such goods, or in any process or occupation necessary to the production thereof, in any State.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[v]ehicular roads and bridges * * * used by persons and goods passing between the various States * * * are instrumentalities of interstate commerce.”
4 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.