United States v. American-Foreign Steamship Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 282 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk (1962), Miller v. Gammie (2003)
168 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 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
reviewedAmerican-Foreign Steamship Corp. v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7460 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 28 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 43 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on United States v. Price · Western Pac Corp v. Western Pac R Co Metzger · Textile Mills Securities Corp. v. Commissioner · American Construction Co v. Jacksonville T K W Ry Co Same
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 282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is to enable the court to maintain its integrity as an institution by making it possible for a majority of its judges always to control and thereby to secure uniformity and continuity in its decisions....'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]n banc courts are the exception, not the rule”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that the active circuit judges shall determine the major doctrinal trends of the future for their court,'”
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.