Napier v. Bossard’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 467 · 1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Arnstein v. Porter (1946), Colby v. Klune (1949)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 Ward v. . Clark · Shuman v. Hall · United States v. Bromley · Ward v. Congress Const. Co. · Shirley v. Larkin 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The deposition has always been, and still is, treated as a substitute, a second-best, not to be used when the original is at hand.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * admissions are competent, not as testimony at all, but because they are inconsistent with the position taken by the party who made them (Wigmore § 1048) * ^ * M”
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.