Coryell v. Phipps’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.2d 702 · 1942
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Coryell v. Phipps (1943), Machinery Rental, Inc. v. Herpel (1980)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox · McCaskill Company v. United States · Lord v. Steamship Co. · United States v. Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Plaintiffs have] the burden of establishing by a preponderance of the evidence, that the corporation was an artifice and a sham designed to execute illegitimate purposes in abuse of the corporate fiction and the immunity that it carries * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the crew left her gasoline valves closed, her electric switches open, her gas tanks registering empty, and her bilges clean and free of gasoline or gasoline vapor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coryell v. Phipps“she was repeatedly examined by competent men between April 15 and June 24, 1935, who discovered nothing wrong with her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coryell v. Phipps
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.