Irwin v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 558 · 1944
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1994
9 federal appellate ·
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 Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · United States v. Forness · In Re the Probate of the Will of Smith · Mackall v. Mackall
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.
“familiar one-word-one-meaning (or `pigs is pigs') fallacy”
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.