Stephan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 423 · 1943
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. (1993), Darby v. Cisneros (1993)
69 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on Ex parte McCardle · St Louis Iron Mountain Southern Railway Company v. May Taylor W · Warner v. Goltra · Mayo v. United States · Cloverleaf Butter Co. v. Patterson, Commissioner of Agriculture & Industries
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Code cannot prevail over the Statutes at Large when the two are inconsistent.”
12 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.