Kotch v. Board of River Port Pilot Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 552 · 1947
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 84 district · 221 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 692 later decisions (89 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Dandridge v. Williams (1970), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)
160 federal appellate · 84 district · 221 state decisions — followed in 36 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.
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Snowden v. Hughes · Cannon v. United States · Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Tigner v. Texas
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 692 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(p)ilots are * * * indispensable cogs in the transportation system of every maritime economy. Their work prevents traffic congestion and accidents which would impair navigation in and to the ports. It affects the safety of lives and cargo, the cost and time expended in port calls, and in some measure, the competitive attractiveness of particular ports.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“benefits to morale and esprit de corps....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“wholly irrelevant to achievement of the regulation's objectives,”
3 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.