Kordel v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
335 U.S. 345 · 1948
Citation profile
254 federal appellate · 82 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 599 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. (1973), Wyeth v. Levine (2009)
254 federal appellate · 82 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Kordel (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 55 (Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Winters v. People of State of New York · United States v. Dotterweich · Ex Parte Barber
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 599 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One article or thing is accompanied by another when it supplements or explains it, in the manner that a committee report of the Congress accompanies a bill. No physical attachment one to the other is necessary. It is the textual relationship that is significant.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“performs the same function as it would if it were on the article or on the containers or wrappers.”
5 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.