Bass v. Dehner’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.2d 28 · 1939
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1989 · most notably Jackson E. McVey and H. E. Northway v. Phillips Petroleum Company (1961), Diamond Shamrock Corp. v. Zinke & Trumbo, Ltd. (1986)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Connors v. United States · Burlie v. Stephens · Avery v. Collins · F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Davis · Alhambra Addition Water Co. v. Richardson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Presumptions and intendments will not be indulged to establish a contradiction, it being the duty of the court to reconcile or harmonize the special findings or answers to special interrogatories with each other, if it can reasonably be done,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where special findings by the jury show that plaintiff's intestate was not injured by an instruction, error therein is without prejudice.”
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.