Ross v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.2d 541 · 1931
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1970
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 White v. United States · United States v. Cox
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * To be able ‘to follow any substantially gainful occupation,’ within the practical commonsense meaning of the phrase, implies ability to work at it all the time. * * *» (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to follow any substantially gainful occupation,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. Gardner
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.