Downey v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.2d 116 · 1940
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Rossiter v. Vogel (1943), Sidebotham v. Robison (1954)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 Pufahl v. Parks' Estate · McDonald v. Thompson · Brick v. Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. · Schenck v. . State Line Telephone Co. · Seaboard Terminals Corp. v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To require a new action to be brought instead of permitting the pending action to go on to trial, with proper amendment of the complaint to convert the action into one for fraud, seems an unnecessary and undesirable insistence upon the original form of the plaintiff’s statement of his case, which the new Rules were designed to avoid.”
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.