Catlin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
324 U.S. 229 · 1945
Citation profile
2,860 federal appellate · 430 district · 274 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,696 later decisions (98 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay (1978), Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978)
2,860 federal appellate · 430 district · 274 state decisions — followed in 31 states
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
reviewedUnited States v. Catlin (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 50 U.S.C. § 171
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Collins v. Miller · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. Southern Express Co.
Cited together with Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Cobbledick v. United States · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp.
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 5,696 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ends the litigation on the merits and leaves nothing for the court to do but execute the judgment.”
689 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) A statement of the authority under which and the public use for which said lands are taken. (2) A description of the lands taken sufficient for the identification thereof. (3) A statement of the estate or interest in said lands taken for said public use. (4) A plan showing the lands taken. (5) A statement of the sum of money estimated by said acquiring authority to be just compensation for the land taken.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon the filing of a declaration of taking, the court shall have power to fix the time within which and the terms upon which the parties in possession shall be required to surrender possession to the petitioner. The court shall have power to make such orders in respect of encumbrances, liens, rents, taxes, assessments, insurance, and other charges, if any, as shall be just and equitable.””
3 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.