United States v. F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
304 federal appellate · 28 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 577 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Brown Shoe Co. v. United States (1962)
304 federal appellate · 28 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedF. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 2
Relies on United States v. Ohio Power Co. · United States v. Hark · Moog Industries, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Bedford's Estate
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 577 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly evidences the judge's intention that it shall be his final act in the case”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended by the judge to be his final act.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute his final judgment in the case”
4 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.