Zittman v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 471 · 1951
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1999 · most notably Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei (1953), Orvis v. Brownell (1953)
41 federal appellate · 8 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Propper v. Clark · Clark v. Chase Nat. Bank · National Labor Relations Board v. Texas Miller Products, Inc.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)he statute under which the funds are to be 'held, administered and accounted for' ... is not a confiscation measure ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tagle v. Regan
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.