Mottolese v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 308 · 1949
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1986
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · McClellan v. Carland · Enelow v. New York Life Insurance · Ettelson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 10 F. Supp. 512 - American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“modern procedural substitute for a decree in chancery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.