Swift & Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Potomac Electric Power Co. v. United States (1978), Metropolitan District Commission v. Department of Public Utilities (1967)
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 · 45 U.S.C. § 71
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co. · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Jersey City · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. · Ayrshire Collieries Corporation 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must know what a decision means before the duty becomes ours to say whether it is right or wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.