Scharfeld v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.2d 340 · 1942
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr (1966), Silvers v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (2005)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company · Jamison v. Encarnacion · Market Company v. Hoffman · Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. · Nicchia v. People of State of New York
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have consistently held legislation derogative of the common law accountable to an exactness of expression, and have not allowed the effects of such legislation to be extended beyond the necessary and unavoidable meaning of its terms. The presumption runs against such innovation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed does not require such adherence to the letter as would defeat an obvious legislative purpose or lessen the scope plainly intended to be given to the meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MMD
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.