Allred v. Sasser’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 233 · 1948
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Patterson v. General Motors Corp. (1980), Rowell v. Kaplan (1967)
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Walling US v. General Industries Co · Bach v. Friden Calculating Mach. Co. · Gary Theatre Co. v. Columbia Pictures Corp. · Young v. United States · Fleming v. Collins
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case the trial court was the trier of the facts, and in considering the evidence was not bound to view it in a light most favorable to the plaintiff, with all attendant favorable presumptions, but was bound to take an unbiased view of all the evidence, direct and circumstantial, and accord it such weight as he believed it entitled to receive.”
7 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.