Fleming v. Lowell Sun Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1982
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 46 (§ 6 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 77S (§ 19 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 19 U.S.C. § 1333 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 204 · 47 U.S.C. § 409 · 49 U.S.C. § 305 · 7 U.S.C. § 222
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Grosjean v. American Press Co. · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the application of the Attorney General of the United States, at the request of the commission, the district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus commanding any person or corporation to comply with the provisions of sections 41-46 and 47-58 of this title or any order of the commission made in pursuance thereof.””
2 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.