United States v. Republic Steel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
243 federal appellate · 75 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 597 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Cort v. Ash (1975), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
243 federal appellate · 75 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Republic Steel Corporation, United States of America v. International Harvester Company, United States of America v. Interlake Iron Corporation (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 401 · 33 U.S.C. § 403 · 33 U.S.C. § 406 · 33 U.S.C. § 407 · 33 U.S.C. § 411 · 33 U.S.C. § 413
Relies on Federal Trade Commission v. Mandel Bros. · United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co. · United States v. San Jacinto Tin Co. · Willamette Iron Bridge Co. v. Hatch
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 597 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has legislated and made its purpose clear; it has provided enough federal law in section 10 from which appropriate remedies may be fashioned even though they rest on inferences. Otherwise we impute to Congress a futility inconsistent with the great design of this legislation.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“charitably in light of the purpose to be served”
9 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.