Ducker v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.2d 236 · 1939
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1982 · most notably Jackson v. Denno (1964), Green v. Brophy (1940)
7 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Webster v. Fall · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · Robertson v. Railroad Labor Board
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of such a nature that a final decree cannot be made without either affecting that interest, or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final termination may be wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as those who have an interest in the controversy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.