United States v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 196 · 1945
Citation profile
326 federal appellate · 13 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 549 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. W. T. Grant Co. (1953), United State v. Morgan (1954)
326 federal appellate · 13 district · 45 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.
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Cobbledick v. United States · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Stoll v. Gottlieb · United States v. Borden Co.
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 549 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The writs may not be used as a substitute for an authorized appeal; and where, as here, the statutory scheme permits appellate review of interlocutory orders only on appeal from the final judgment, review by certiorari or other extraordinary writ is not permissible in the face of the plain indication of the legislative purpose to avoid piecemeal reviews.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“investigate, recommend and report. It can give no remedy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In every civil action brought in any district court of the United States under any of said Acts [antitrust acts], wherein the United States is complainant, an appeal from the final judgment of the district court will lie only to the Supreme Court.”
1 later decision 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.