Benton v. Callaway’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 877 · 1948
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1976
10 federal appellate ·
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 Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Continental Illinois Nat Bank Trust Co of Chicago v. Chicago R I & P Ry Co · Gardner v. State of New Jersey · Kalb v. Feuerstein
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the lessors do not accept the proposal to acquire their lines they are, on disaffirmance, at liberty to take their properties back,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Callaway v. Benton“The plan makes an offer to you gentlemen; that is all it does.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Callaway v. Benton
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.