United States v. Champlin Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 290 · 1951
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Wallace v. Jaffree (1985), Salomon v. City of Jersey City (1953)
21 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Co. · Pipe Line Cases · United States v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statute cannot be divorced from the circumstances existing at the time it was passed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Jaffree
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.