United States v. Plesha’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1987 · most notably Kent v. Dulles (1958), Anderson Bros. Ford v. Valencia (1981)
14 federal appellate · 12 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
reviewedPlesha v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Boone v. Lightner · United States v. Gilman · Riverbank Laboratories v. Hardwood Products Corp.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the legislative history . . . indicates anything, it is that Congress thought that it was changing the law by changing the language of the Act.”
1 later decision 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.