Hawkins v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 66 · 1943
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1995 · most notably Gairola v. Commonwealth of Virginia Department of General Services (1985), Williams v. Nichols (1959)
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Yeatts · Felton v. Spiro · Garrison v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here there is 'no substantial evidence to support' the verdict asked of the jury.”
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.