Jarecki v. G. D. Searle & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
371 federal appellate · 70 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 994 later decisions (74 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. (1992), Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell (1985)
371 federal appellate · 70 district · 109 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedG. D. Searle & Co. v. Jarecki (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 105 · 26 U.S.C. § 114 · 26 U.S.C. § 632 · 35 U.S.C. § 101
Relies on United States v. Menasche · Moses Lake Homes, Inc. v. Grant County · Neal v. Clark · Dolbear v. American Bell Telephone Co.
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 994 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The maxim noscitur a sociis, that a word is known by the company it keeps, while not an inescapable rule, is often wisely applied where a word is capable of many meanings in order to avoid the giving of unintended breadth to the Acts of Congress.”
53 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statute admits a reasonable construction which gives effect to all of its provisions,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Income resulting from exploration, discovery, or prospecting, or any combination of the foregoing, extending over a period of more than 12 months.”
3 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.