May v. Midwest Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 431 · 1941
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Smolowe v. Delendo Corp. (1943), 33 Del. Ch. 293 - Sterling v. Mayflower Hotel Corp. (1952)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Pepper v. Litton · Trustees v. Greenough · Southern Pac Co v. Bogert · Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America v. Slattery · Doe Run Lead Co. v. Maynard
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In making awards of this sort `The court below should have considerable latitude of discretion on the subject, since it has far better means of knowing what is just and reasonable than an appellate court can have.' Trustees v. Greenough, 105 U.S. 527 , 537, 26 L.Ed. 1157.”
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.