United States v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,560 United States of America v. David B. Charnay (1976), United States v. Ivey (1991)
46 federal appellate · 10 district · 9 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
Relies on Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · United States v. Grimaud · Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty · Caha 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rules and regulations the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission had issued. The weight of this holding is limited here, however, because the Black Bass Act drew no distinction between laws and regulations 4 Union points to the following floor statement made just prior to passage of the Act in the Senate:”
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.