Putnam v. Ickes’s Empirical Analysis
78 F.2d 223 · 1935
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Blank v. Bitker (1943), Aralac, Inc. v. Hat Corp. (1948)
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 43 U.S.C. § 1166
Relies on United States v. Throckmorton · Camp v. Gress · Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad · Hart v. Sansom · Seaboard Rice Milling Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it is clear from any reasonable construction of the acts that the Declaratory Judgment Act has not given the courts jurisdiction over any controversy that would not be within their jurisdiction if affirmative relief were being sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.