Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 212 · 1947
Citation profile
541 federal appellate · 56 district · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,050 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1958)
541 federal appellate · 56 district · 181 state decisions — followed in 25 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
reviewedWest Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. v. Cone (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Johnson · Jones v. Securities & Exchange Commission · Pleasants v. Fant · Berry v. United States
Cited together with Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Globe Liquor Co. v. San Roman · Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc. · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Neely v. Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc.
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 1,050 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“feel of the case which no appellate printed transcript can impart.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“without power to direct the District Court to enter judgment contrary to the one it had permitted to stand”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court may allow the judgment to stand or may reopen the judgment and either order a new trial or direct the entry of judgment as if the requested verdict had been directed.”
6 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.