Fleming v. Munsingwear, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.2d 125 · 1947
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013
14 federal appellate · 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 Central Transp Co v. Pullman's Palace Car Co · American Book Company v. State of Kansas Galen Nichols · Chicago Great Western Ry. Co. v. Beecher · Hard & Rand, Inc. v. Biston Coffee Co. · Woodbury v. Porter
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there now being no law which would sustain the injunction sought by plaintiff, it seems clear that the case has become moot”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the second count of the complaint by which treble damages were sought should be held in abeyance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court can concern itself only with actual controversies”
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.