Sutton v. Johnson Cotton Co.’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.2d 302 · 1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1985
3 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.
Relationships
Relies on In Re Peterson · Coyner v. United States · Graffis v. Woodward · American Agricultural Chemical Co. v. Barnes Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if a reference to an auditor in the manner approved in Ex parte Peterson [ 253 U.S. 300 , 40 S.Ct. 543 , 64 L.Ed. 919 ], had been directed, and his conclusions had been submitted to the jury as prima facie correct, the evidence taken by him would not have been introduced but the case would have been tried upon his report and such evidence as the parties might desire to present.””
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.