Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
1,236 federal appellate · 77 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,268 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. (1976), Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc (1980)
1,236 federal appellate · 77 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
reviewedIn re Bankers Life & Casualty Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1406 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · United States v. Trenton Potteries Co. · Ex parte Fahey
Cited together with Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Will v. United States · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Ex parte Fahey
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 2,268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to issuance of the writ is 'clear and indisputable.'”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to confine an inferior court to a lawful exercise of its prescribed jurisdiction or to compel it to exercise its authority when it is its duty to do so.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“then every interlocutory order which is wrong might be reviewed under the All Writs Act.”
31 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.