Holmberg v. Armbrecht’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 392 · 1946
Citation profile
1,242 federal appellate · 483 district · 153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,573 later decisions (154 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder (1976)
1,242 federal appellate · 483 district · 153 state decisions — followed in 23 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
reviewedHolmberg v. Armbrecht (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al.
Cited together with Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Hoosier Cardinal Corp. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Exploration Co. 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 3,573 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is read into every federal statute of limitation.”
103 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Equity eschews mechanical rules; it depends on flexibility.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If Congress explicitly puts a limit upon the time for enforcing a right which it created, there is an end of the matter. The Congressional statute of limitation is definitive.”
42 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.