Curtis v. O'Leary’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 240 · 1942
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1976
11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Local Loan Co. v. Hunt · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance · United States v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Wayne United Gas Co. v. Owens-Illinois Glass Co. · Freeman v. Howe
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[S]ale' is a word of precise legal import, both at law and in equity. It means, at all times, a contract between parties, to give and to pass rights of property for money — which the buyer pays or promises to pay the seller for the thing bought and sold.”
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.