Banks v. Chicago Grain Trimmers Assn., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
293 federal appellate · 3 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 522 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Estate of Cowart v. Nicklos Drilling Co. (1992), Burns v. Alcala (1975)
293 federal appellate · 3 district · 59 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
reviewedChicago Grain Trimmers Ass'n v. Enos (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 921 · 33 U.S.C. § 922 · 33 U.S.C. § 933
Relies on O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Lawson v. Suwanee Fruit & Steamship Co · Banks v. Chicago Grain Trimmers Ass'n · Banks v. Chicago Grain Trimmers Ass'n
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 522 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'protect[ ] the employer against his employee's accepting too little for his cause of action against a third party.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a mistake in a determination of fact (which) makes such a modification desirable in order to render justice under the act.”
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.