Erlenbaugh v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
291 federal appellate · 69 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 696 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper (1980), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
291 federal appellate · 69 district · 57 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
reviewedUnited States v. Erlenbaugh (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Bass · Rewis v. United States · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · Markham v. Cabell · Sanford's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 696 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] legislative body generally uses a particular word with a consistent meaning in a given context.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assumes that whenever Congress passes a new statute, it acts aware of all previous statutes on the same subject.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“individual sections of a single statute should be construed together.”
5 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.