Berger v. Brannan’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 241 · 1949
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Dodd v. Fawcett Publications, Inc. (1964), Reynolds v. Reynolds (1961)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 McDonald v. Bowles · 27 F. Supp. 887 - In re Insull Utility Investments, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The spirit of a pre-trial procedure is not only to call the parties together and ask them to stipulate as to all matters concerning which there can be no dispute, but to compel them to stipulate .... Without Rule 16, the court always has had the power to ask the parties to meet and request them to try and get together on all such matters. The purpose of the pre-trial procedure is to compel them to do this.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court has the power to compel the parties to agree to all facts concerning which there can be no real issue.”
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.