Doering v. Buechler’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.2d 784 · 1945
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Russell v. Turner (1945), Builders Steel Co. v. Commissioner (1950)
48 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Elzig v. Gudwangen · McDonald v. McDonald · Magill v. Travelers Ins. Co. · Thompson v. Carley · Reid v. Durboraw
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court, in the case at bar, believed that to be the law. In deciding what the highest court of a state would probably hold the state law to be, great weight may properly be accorded by this court to the view of the trial court. * * * This court would be justified in adopting a contrary view only if convinced of error.”
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.