Cherry Cotton Mills, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 536 · 1946
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 18 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 431 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Munsey Trust Co. (1947), Lebron v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation (1995)
109 federal appellate · 18 district · 7 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 Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Sloan Shipyards Corporation v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation · Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. J. G. Menihan Corp. · Chicago Ry Co v. Lindell
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 431 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the Congress chose to call it a corporation does not alter its characteristics so as to make it something other than what it actually is, an agency selected by the Government to accomplish purely Governmental purposes.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * to permit the Government, when sued in the Court of Claims, to have determined in a single suit all questions which involved mutual obligations between the Government and a claimant against it. Legislation of this kind has long been favored and encouraged because of a belief that it accomplishes among other things such useful purposes as avoidance of “circuity of action, inconvenience, expense, consumption of the courts’ time, and injustice.” Chicago & N.W.R. Co. v. Lindell, 281 U.S. 14 , 17, 50 S.Ct. 200 , 201, 74 L.Ed. 670 , and cases cited.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Government here sought neither immunity nor priority. Its right to counterclaim rests on different principles, one of which was graphically expressed by the sponsors of the Act [which created the Court of Claims] ...: It is “as much the duty of the citizen to pay the Government as it is the duty of the Government to pay the citizen.””
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.