Watkins v. Fly’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 578 · 1943
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1993
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Bennecke v. Insurance Co. · Commissioner v. First Nat. Bank of Atlanta
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A waiver may be defined as the intentional relinquishment of a known right with both knowledge of its existence and an intention to relinquish it.”
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.