Frederick Hart & Co. v. Recordgraph Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.2d 580 · 1948
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 73 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Dewey v. Clark (1950)
53 federal appellate · 73 district · 8 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 Continental Collieries, Inc. v. Shober · Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. v. American Anode, Inc. · Sarnoff v. Ciaglia · Withrow v. Edwards · Carroll v. Morrison Hotel Corp.
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is well-settled that on motions to dismiss and for summary-judgment, affidavits filed in their support may be considered for the purpose of ascertaining whether an issue of fact is presented, but they cannot be used as a basis for deciding the fact issue * *”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the present complaint, as amplified by the interrogatories, answers thereto and affidavits filed in the cause, does not indicate any jus-ticiable controversy * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNair v. Wolf
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.