United States v. Beach’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 193 · 1945
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Cleveland v. United States (1946), Federal Trade Commission v. Travelers Health Ass'n (1960)
16 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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
reviewedBeach v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 44 (§ 4 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 21 U.S.C. § 16
Relies on Hoke & Economides v. United States · Mortensen v. United States · Wilson v. United States · Athanasaw 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the Court of Appeals did not pass upon other grounds for reversal urged by respondent, the case is remanded to it for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. Bates v. United States, 323 U. S. 15, 17 , ante, 13, 14, 65 S. Ct. 15 , and cases cited.” (89 L. ed. 865)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“its usual policy of extending legislation based on the commerce power to the same substantive acts taking place wholly within the [territory].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the business of securing white women and girls and of selling them outright, or of exploiting them for immoral purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.