Fleming v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 100 · 1947
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 36 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 360 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. (1976), Concrete Pipe & Products of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal. (1993)
97 federal appellate · 36 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Bowles v. Willingham · Phillips v. United States · Kepner 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 360 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal regulation of future action based upon rights previously acquired by the person regulated is not prohibited by the Constitution. So long as the Constitution authorizes the subsequently enacted legislation, the fact that its provisions limit or interfere with previously acquired rights does not condemn it.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prompt determination by the court of last resort of disputed questions of the constitutionality of acts of the Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the ruling of unconstitutionality is made in the application of the statute to a particular circumstance, . . . rather than upon the challenged statute as a whole.”
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.