United States v. Silliman’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 607 · 1948
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 11 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Winters v. Lavine (1978), Lyons v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1955)
45 federal appellate · 11 district · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Angel v. Bullington
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a rule of public policy must be watched in its application lest a blind adherence to it tend to defeat the even firmer established policy of giving every litigant a full and fair day in court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]f an issue is raised and the party who has the burden fails in his proof and the issue is decided against him, he is just as much bound by collateral estoppel as though he had presented a barrel of testimony.”
4 later decisions 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.