Whelan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1978
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 Mussman & Shafer, Inc. 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally speaking, hardboard, as defined in this record, and in the patents of William H. Mason, its inventor and the guiding spirit of the Mason Fibre Co., the predecessor of Masonite Corp., is a hard, dense grainless wood fiberboard composed of interfelted lignins cellulose fibers and having a specific gravity greater than most woods.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Manufactures of wood or bark, or of which wood or bark is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for: * * * ¡i * * Other * * *_ 16%% ad val.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.