Utah Junk Co. v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 39 · 1946
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Lynch v. Overholser (1962), Cheng Fan Kwok v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1968)
80 federal appellate · 3 district · 13 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 Yakus v. United States · United States v. Hark · Thomas Paper Stock Co. v. Bowles · Farm Products 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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court will `do well to stick close to the text and not import argumentative qualifications from broad, unexpressed claims of policy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All construction is the ascertainment of meaning. And literalness may strangle meaning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Procedure "Sec. 203. (a) At any time after the issuance of any regulation or order under section 2, * * * any person subject to any provision of such regulation, order, or price schedule may, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Administrator, file a protest specifically setting forth objections to any such provision and affidavits or other written evidence in support of such objections. * * *”
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.