Ex parte Fahey’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 258 · 1947
Citation profile
656 federal appellate · 22 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,061 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. (1976), Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc (1980)
656 federal appellate · 22 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Fahey v. Mallonee
Cited together with Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland · Will v. United States · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.
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 1,061 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reserved for really extraordinary causes.”
33 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.