Gustafson v. Alloyd Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
723 federal appellate · 243 district · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,171 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (2000), Jones v. United States (1999)
723 federal appellate · 243 district · 161 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedPacific Dunlop Holdings Inc. v. Allen & Co. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77 · 15 U.S.C. § 77B (§ 2 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77C (§ 3 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77D (§ 4 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77J (§ 10 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77K (§ 11 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77M (§ 13 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Soberon v. United States · Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · Herman & MacLean v. Huddleston · Basic Inc. v. Levinson · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder
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 2,171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“identical words used in different parts of the same act are intended to have the same meaning.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“a word is known by the company it keeps.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“avoid ascribing to one word a meaning so broad that it is inconsistent with its accompanying words, thus giving unintended breadth to the Acts of Congress.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.