United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
267 federal appellate · 96 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 648 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail (1992), Firefighters Local Union No. 1784 v. Stotts (1984)
267 federal appellate · 96 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · United States v. Swift & Co. · Schine Chain Theatres, Inc. v. United States · Capital Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 648 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Swift teaches that a decree may be changed upon an appropriate showing, and it holds that it may not be changed in the interest of the defendants if the purposes of the litigation as incorporated in the decree have not been fully achieved.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a clear showing of grievous wrong evoked by new and unforeseen conditions.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“instructed the district court to determine whether the relief originally ordered had produced the intended results. “If it has not, the District Court should modify the decree so as to achieve the required result with all appropriate expedition.””
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.