Thornton v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.2d 316 · 1940
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1948), Olga Zdanok v. The Glidden Company, Durkee Famous Foods Division, Frank T. Alexander v. The Glidden Company, Durkee Famous Foods Division (1964)
68 federal appellate · 6 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 Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co. · Miller v. Robertson · Boston Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'alter it, examine it except for purposes of execution, or give any further or other relief or review it for apparent error with respect to any question decided on appeal.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After a case has been brought to this court and decided and a mandate has been issued to the court below, a second appeal brings up nothing for revision but the proceedings subsequent to the mandate * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'without power to do anything which is contrary to either the letter or spirit of the mandate construed in the light of the opinion of (the) court deciding the case.'”
3 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.