United States v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 238 · 1947
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1988 · most notably United States v. Schiavo (1974), Northern Pac Ry Co v. United States (1947)
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
reviewedUnited States v. Powell (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Union Pac R Co · Northern Pac Ry Co v. United States · Krug v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad · Southern Ry 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for military or naval and not for civil use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is sufficient here to say that the fertilizer was being transported for a `civil' use within the meaning of § 321(a), since it was destined for use by civilian agencies in agricultural projects. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * not for use by the armed services to satisfy any of their needs or wants or by any civilian agency which acted as their adjunct or otherwise serviced them in any of their activities.”
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.