Fischer & Porter Co. v. Tolson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2014
2 district · 1 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 In Re Convergent Technologies Securities Litigation · Nestle Foods Corp. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Cornaglia v. Ricciardi
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any question that asks another party to indicate what it contends ... whether it makes some specified contention ... to state all the facts on which it bases some specified contention ... to take a position, and then to explain or defend that position, with respect to how the law applies to facts ... [or] to spell out the legal basis for, or theory behind, some specified contention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.