Yoder v. Nu-Enamel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.2d 488 · 1941
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 15 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Thomas Polk v. Ford Motor Company, Ethel Lee Marshall, Guardian v. Ford Motor Company (1976), Hausman v. Buckley (1962)
57 federal appellate · 15 district · 4 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Senn v. Tile Layers Protective Union · Hawks v. Hamill · Badger v. Hoidale
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he responsibility of the federal courts, in matters of local law, is not to formulate the legal mind of the state, but merely to ascertain and apply it.”
11 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.