Robertson v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 37 · 1951
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1983 · most notably Carter v. Seamans (1969), Point Landing, Inc. v. Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. (1958)
32 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
reviewedChambers v. Robertson (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Robertson · Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not contests; they are inquiries concerning disability. The purpose is to get at the truth of the matter.”
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.