Bailey v. Megan’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 651 · 1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 1991
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Olson v. United States · Great Northern Ry Co v. Weeks · Rowley v. Chicago & Nw Ry Co · Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Eveland
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [i]f the result was clearly wrong, the method used [will] not save it.' * * *”
2 later decisions 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.