Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 380 · 1947
Citation profile
1,458 federal appellate · 388 district · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,387 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. (1984), Indian Towing Company v. United States (1955)
1,458 federal appellate · 388 district · 150 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · Keifer v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Rock Island Co v. United States · United States v. Stewart
Cited together with Schweiker v. Hansen · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi
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 4,387 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever the form in which the Government functions, anyone entering into an arrangement with the Government takes the risk of having accurately ascertained that he who purports to act for the Government stays within the bounds of his authority.”
178 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is very well to say that those who deal with the Government should turn square corners. But there is no reason why the square corners should constitute a one-way street.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not even the temptations of a hard case,”
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.