Lyons v. Weltmer’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.2d 473 · 1949
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2008 · most notably Monroe v. Pape (1961), Field v. Volkswagenwerk AG (1980)
11 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Bell v. Hood · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab Co · Screws v. United States · James Conolly v. Richard Taylor · McCartney v. West Virginia
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“questions of jurisdiction are to be determined on the basis of conditions existing at the time the action was instituted”
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.