Grier v. Kennan’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.2d 605 · 1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2011
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act)
Relies on Caminetti v. United States · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Knowlton v. Moore · United States v. Kirby · Wisconsin Central Railroad v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence, and it will always be presumed that the legislature intended exceptions to its language, which would avoid results of this character.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Karlen v. Comm'r“A particular construction must not produce inequality and injustice if another and more reasonable interpretation is possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Karlen v. Comm'r
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.