Williams v. Keyes’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.2d 208 · 1942
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably Debt v. Wyer (1959), Lesnik v. Public Industrials Corp. (1944)
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Wichita Light Co v. Public Untilities Commission of the State of Kansas · Barney v. Latham · Stewart v. Dunham · Hardenbergh v. Ray · 27 F. Supp. 412 - Bossard v. McGwinn
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Outmoded technicalities and refinements of procedure no longer obtain in federal courts; the object of the new rules being to facilitate the trial and disposition of causes and all matters in controversy upon their merits. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kozak v. Wells
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.