Utah Junk Co. v. Porter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “All construction is the ascertainment of meaning. And literalness may strangle meaning.”
• Judge Learned Hand writing for the court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

62 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lynch v. Overholser
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-21· cited 478×
• Cheng Fan Kwok v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 336×
• United States Ex Rel. Totten v. Bombardier Corp.
  D.C. Circuit· 2004-08-27· cited 258×
• Levinson v. Spector Motor Service
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-31· cited 219×
• Fleming v. Mohawk Wrecking & Lumber Co.
  Supreme Court· 1947-04-28· cited 193×
• Cadena Comercial USA Corp. D/B/A Oxxo v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
  Texas Supreme Court· 2017-04-28· cited 190×
• Abourezk v. Reagan
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-03-11· cited 175×
• Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-25· cited 164×
• Allen v. Grand Central Aircraft Co.
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-24· cited 147×
• Joseph C. Spagnola, Jr. v. William Mathis, (Two Cases) Joseph C. Spagnola, Jr. v. William Mathis
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-01-06· cited 101×
• Carl Norman Quinn v. Earl L. Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, and United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1975-01-06· cited 87×
• In Re Franklyn C. NOFZIGER
  D.C. Circuit· 1991-03-07· cited 75×
• Aldoupolis v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-05-13· cited 67×
• Elliot Brey v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2022-02-15· cited 40×
• Defoe v. Phillip
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-01-05· cited 39×
• Hawaii Carpenters' Trust Funds v. Aloe Development Corp.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1981-08-31· cited 32×
• Sanker v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-05-17· cited 32×
• United States v. California
  Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals· 1974-09-19· cited 26×
• Fleming v. Goodwin
  Eighth Circuit· 1948-01-16· cited 24×
• State, by Atty. Gen. v. Pioneer Mill Co.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 22×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Yakus v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1944-03-27· cited 1,935×
• United States v. Hark
  Supreme Court· 1944-01-03· cited 147×
• Thomas Paper Stock Co. v. Bowles
  Emergency Court of Appeals· 1945-03-27· cited 20×
• United States Gypsum Co. v. Brown
  Emergency Court of Appeals· 1943-08-19· cited 15×
• Marlene Linens v. Bowles
  Emergency Court of Appeals· 1944-09-29· cited 9×
• R. E. Schanzer, Inc. v. Bowles
  Emergency Court of Appeals· 1944-03-17· cited 7×
• Utah Junk Co. v. Bowles
  Emergency Court of Appeals· 1945-08-06· cited 3×