Auer v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1997 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. (1944), 53 N.J. Super. 190 - Hannigan v. Goldfarb (1958)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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 Shover v. Myrick · Newark Passenger Railway Co. v. Block · Lewis v. National Cash Register Co. · Osbun v. De Young · Camden & Atlantic Railroad v. Williams
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 general rule is that, while the Carlisle table of mortality is evidential, irrespective of the condition of health of the person whose expectancy of life is the subject of the inquiry, yet that condition of health must be taken into account in determining the probable duration of such person's life. * * *”
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.