Guilford Const. Co. v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 46 · 1939
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1960 · most notably Grace Bros. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1949), Campana Corp. v. Harrison (1940)
24 federal appellate ·
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 Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville · Adamson v. Gilliland · Miller v. Pyrites Co. · Suburban Improvement Co. v. Scott Lumber Co. · Deutser v. Marlboro Shirt 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provisions of the new procedural rules that the findings of fact of the trial judge are to be accepted on appeal unless clearly wrong (Rule 52(a), 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723c) is but the formulation of a rule long recognized and applied by courts of equity. Adamson v. Gilliland, 242 U.S. 350 , 37 S.Ct. 169 , 61 L.Ed. 356 ; Deutser v. Marlboro Shirt Co., 4 Cir., 81 F.2d 139 , 142; Sherman v. Bramham, 4 Cir., 78 F.2d 443 ; Miller v. Pyrites Co., 4 Cir., 71 F.2d 804 ; Suburban Imp. Co. v. Scott Lumber Co., 4 Cir., 67 F.2d 335 , 90 A.L.R. 330 .””
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.