Munro v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
102 F.2d 686 · 1939
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services (1983), United States v. Cirami (1977)
26 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Kennedy v. Gibson · Casey v. Galli · National Bank v. Case · Christopher v. Norvell · Commercial Union of America, Inc. v. Anglo-South American Bank, Ltd.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'law of the case,' . . . when used to express the duty of a lower court to follow what has been decided by a higher court at an earlier stage of the case, applies to everything decided, either expressly or by necessary implication,”
4 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.