In re Di Torio’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.2d 279 · 1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1984
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · Watson v. Jones · United States of America v. American Tobacco Co. · United States v. Kirby
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An act is void where its language appears on its face to have a meaning, but it is impossible to give it any precise or intelligible application in the circumstances under which it was intended to operate.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the language of a statute is ambiguous, it is proper to consider the conditions with reference to the subject-matter that existed when it was adopted, the occasion and necessity for the law, and the causes which induced its enactment, or, in other words, the mischief sought to be avoided and the remedy intended to be afforded. [In re Di Torio, 8 F. 2d 279.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If no judical certainty can be settled upon as to the meaning of a statute, the courts are not at liberty to supply one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.