Mendez v. Bowie’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.2d 435 · 1941
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Bates v. Devers (1974), Harper Plastics, Inc. v. Amoco Chemicals Corp. (1981)
14 federal appellate · 4 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · McGowan v. Parish · Roberts v. Northern Pacific Railroad · Pappenheim v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only in respect of every matter which was actually offered and received to sustain the demand or to make out a defense, but also as to every ground of recovery or defense which might have been presented.”
7 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.