Clark v. Memolo’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.2d 978 · 1949
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Coleman v. Burnett (1973), Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby v. United States (1966)
70 federal appellate · 10 district · 14 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 United States v. Smith · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · United States Girard Trust Co v. Helvering · Doehler Metal Furniture Co. v. Warren · Avery Freight Lines, Inc. v. White
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he primary purpose of the act [is] to have a declaration of rights not theretofore determined, and not to determine whether rights theretofore adjudicated have been properly adjudicated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The action for declaratory judgment is not suitable and does not lie in the District of Columbia in such cases as a substitute for a motion to vacate or to correct the sentence in the court where it was imposed or as a substitute for habeas corpus in the district where the unlawful detention occurs, or as a substitute for a new trial or appeal. Unless so restricted there would be no end to that kind of litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hurley v. Reed“claimant may institute a suit in equity in * * * the district court of the United States for the district in which such claimant resides * * * to establish the interest, right, title, or debt so claimed * * *.”
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.