Sorrels v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 769 · 1944
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1977 · most notably Pennsylvania v. Local Union 542, International Union of Operating Engineers (1977), Fortunato v. Ford Motor Co. (1972)
27 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■ «* * * ~Yjre think this was clearly wrong, but this of itself is not enough. A reversal on this ground would be proper only if it is shown that the exclusion was harmful. * * *””
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.