United States v. Crain’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 996 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1999 · most notably Arizona v. Manypenny (1981), Republic of Philippines v. Marcos (1986)
28 federal appellate · 2 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 Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills of Ala. · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Helvering v. Gowran
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The regulations do not indicate what the applicable federal law is. Finally, despite the fact that some of the contractual provisions in the case may arguably waive the Crains' state law defenses, they do not rise to the force of federal law and do not foreclose the question of what the federal rule is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise ... and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the nation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“should be overriden by the federal courts only where clear and substantial interests of the National Government ... will suffer major damage if the state law is applied.”
1 later decision 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.