American Ins. v. Scheufler’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.2d 143 · 1942
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. Brookside Theatre Corp. (1952), Root Refining Co. v. Universal Oil Products Co. (1948)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Louis Loeb v. Trustees of Columbia Township · Stone v. United States · United States v. Commercial Credit Co. · O'Malley v. United States · Ed S. Michelson, Inc. v. Nebraska Tire & Rubber 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose in requiring that appellant’s brief contain a separate and particular statement of each point relied upon intended to be urged, is to point out to the appellate court the specific ruling or action of the trial court which is challenged as erroneous and to limit the presentation in the appellate court to the matters in the specifications as stated in the brief.””
2 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.