Hale v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.2d 594 · 1942
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1970
4 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 118 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · People's Bank v. Calhoun · Commonwealth Trust Company of Pittsburg v. Smith · Sioux City Terminal Railroad & Warehouse Co. v. Trust Co. of North America
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The Supreme Court gave its definition of indispensable parties in Shields v. Barrow, 17 How. [129] 130, 139, 58 U.S. [129] 130, 15 L.Ed. 158 (and we know of none in conflict), as: ‘Persons who not only have an interest in the controversy, but an interest of such a nature that a final decree cannot be made without either affecting that interest, or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final termination may be wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““But the plaintiff endeavored to litigate the claims presented by his complaint in the State court in the will contest case to which he was a party and that court, at the instance of these defendants, relegated the plaintiff to a separate action. The Iowa court may not in the exercise of probate jurisdiction try title to real or personal property involved in probate proceedings. ’ ’”
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.