United States v. Commodities Trading Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 121 · 1950
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 9 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Reid v. Covert (1957), Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. v. United States (1984)
106 federal appellate · 9 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 15 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · United States v. Miller · Olson v. United States · Bowles v. Willingham
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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“just compensation” are employed only "when market value [is] too difficult to find, or when its application would result in manifest injustice to owner or public....”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he dominant consideration always remains the same: What compensation is 'just' both to an owner whose property is taken and to the public that must pay the bill?”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“private property (shall) be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
2 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.