Will v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1,500 federal appellate · 83 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,579 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. (1976), United States v. Jorn (1971)
1,500 federal appellate · 83 district · 133 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedUnited States v. White (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cobbledick v. United States · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland · Schlagenhauf v. Holder
Cited together with Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Holland · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal. · Schlagenhauf v. Holder
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 2,579 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to confine an inferior court to a lawful exercise of its prescribed jurisdiction or to compel it to exercise its authority when it is its duty to do so.”
178 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would undermine the settled limitations upon the power of an appellate court to review interlocutory orders.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“most potent weapons in the judicial arsenal.”
11 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.