Edwards v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.2d 767 · 1937
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1989
8 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 703 · 15 U.S.C. § 791 (Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974) · 45 U.S.C. § 151 (Railway Labor Act) · 7 U.S.C. § 601 · 7 U.S.C. § 608 · 7 U.S.C. § 608A · 7 U.S.C. § 608B · 7 U.S.C. § 608C (Food and Agriculture Act of 1965)
Relies on Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Caminetti v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“problems have developed, and constantly are developing, which require, and will continue to require, additional restrictions in respect of the use and occupation of private lands * * *. Regulations, the wisdom, necessity and validity of which, as applied to existing conditions, are so apparent that they are now uniformly sustained, a century ago, or even half a century ago, probably would have been rejected as arbitrary and oppressive. * * * And in this there is no inconsistency for, while the meaning of constitutional guaranties never varies, the scope of their application must expand or contract to meet the new and different conditions which are constantly coming within the field of their operation. In a changing world it is impossible that it should be otherwise.”
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.