Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Lenroot’s Empirical Analysis
323 U.S. 490 · 1945
Citation profile
156 federal appellate · 41 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 333 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Don Stenberg Attorney General of Nebraskas v. Leroy Carhart (2000), Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1949)
156 federal appellate · 41 district · 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 212 · 29 U.S.C. § 214
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Gibbons v. Ogden · United States v. Darby · United States of America v. American Tobacco Co. · Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board
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 333 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all steps whether manufacture or not, which lead to readiness for putting goods into the stream of commerce”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ (i) 'Goods’. means goods (including skips and marine equipment), wares, products, commodities, merchandise, or articles or subjects of commerce of any character, or any part or ingredient thereof, but does not include goods after their delivery into the actual physical possession of the ultimate consumer thereof other than a producer, manufacturer, or processor thereof.” (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(b) ‘Commerce’ means trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States or from any State to any place outside thereof. “(c) ‘State’ means any State of the United States or the District of Columbia or any Territory or possession of the United States. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 “(i) ‘Goods’ means goods (including ships and marine equipment), wares, produets, commodities, merchandise, or articles or subjects of commerce of any character, or any part or ingredient thereof, but does not include goods after their delivery into the actual physical possession of the ultimate consumer thereof other than a producer, manufacturer, or processor thereof. “(j) ‘Produced’ means produced, manufactured, mined, handled, or in any other manner worked on in any State; and for the purposes of this Act [ 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 201-219 ] an employee shall be deemed to have been engaged in the production of goods if such employe© was employed m 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.””
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.