Sorenson v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.2d 714 · 1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1967
6 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Stoll v. Gottlieb · United States v. Throckmorton · Toledo Scale Co. v. Computing Scale Co. · Ashton v. Cameron County Water Improvement District No. One
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion the various issues involved in the motion to vacate the decree were before Judge Caffey and his decision was binding on the later court. Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank, [ 308 U.S. 371 ], 60 S.Ct. 317 , 84 L.Ed. [329], decided by the Supreme Court on January 2, 1940; Stoll v. Gottlieb, 305 U.S. 165 , 59 S.Ct. 134 , 83 L.Ed. 104 .””
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.