Ladd v. Brickley’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.2d 212 · 1946
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably State of West Virginia v. Chas. Pfizer & Co. (1970), Pulson v. American Rolling Mill Co. (1948)
8 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. Bigelow · State of Washington Bond Goodwin Tucker v. Superior Court of State of Washington for Spokane County
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Certainly the court was not required to put its guess as to the probable success of each claim and defense into a formally stated conclusion.””
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.