L. P. Steuart & Bro., Inc. v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
322 U.S. 398 · 1944
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2000 · most notably Social Security Board v. Nierotko (1946), Carmen Gonzalez v. Orville L. Freeman (1964)
60 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 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
reviewedL. P. Steuart & Bro., Inc. v. Bowles (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Yakus v. United States · Bowles v. Willingham · Keppel v. Tiffin Savings Bank · American Seating Co. v. Zell · Tiffany v. National Bank
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree that it is for Congress to prescribe the penalties for the laws which it writes. It would transcend both the judicial and the administrative function to make additions to those which Congress has placed behind a statute. United States v. Two Hundred Barrels of Whiskey, 95 U.S. 571 [ 24 L.Ed. 491 ]; Campbell v. Galeno Chemical Co., 281 U.S. 599 [ 50 S.Ct. 412 , 74 L.Ed. 1063 ]; Wallace v. Cutten, supra [ 298 U.S. 229 , 56 S.Ct. 753 , 80 L.Ed. 1157 ]. Hence we would have no difficulty in agreeing with petitioner’s contention if the issue were whether a suspension order could be used as a means of punishment of an offender. But that statement of the question is a distortion of the issue presented on this record. 9 ””
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.