Rubenstein v. Files’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Gulf States Exploration Co. v. Manville Forest Products Corp. (1990), Bates v. Blitz (1944)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The answers of the party interrogated are evidence, but do not exclude adverse testimony, and shall be weighed by the judge as other testimony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sherman v. Nehlig
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.