Walling v. James V. Reuter, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
321 U.S. 671 · 1944
Citation profile
133 federal appellate · 10 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 288 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc (2000), United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. (1950)
133 federal appellate · 10 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJames V. Reuter, Inc. v. Walling (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Wilson v. United States · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Phillips v. United States
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 288 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[An injunction] may ..., in appropriate circumstances, be enforced against those to whom the business may have been transferred, whether as a means of evading the judgment or for other reasons.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a judgment has become moot [while awaiting review], th[e] [c]ourt may not consider its merits, but may make such disposition of the whole case as justice may require.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“survives the dissolution of the corporate defendant.”
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.