Esquire, Inc. v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.2d 49 · 1945
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1973
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Grosjean v. American Press Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe that the Post Office Officials should experience a feeling of relief if they are limited to the more prosaic function of seeing to it that ‘neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.