Janes v. Sackman Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
177 F.2d 928 · 1949
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1982 · most notably Bournias v. Atlantic Maritime Co. (1955), 148 Ind. App. 203 - Horvath v. Davidson (1970)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Propper v. Clark · Loucks v. . Standard Oil Co. · Whitford v. . the Panama Railroad Company · Cooper v. American Airlines, Inc. · Wiener v. Specific Pharmaceuticals, 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is obvious that the necessities of decision have forced upon us the rather delicate task of interpreting a state statute to carry out what seems to us the statutory purpose in a situation not yet visualized in the home precedents.”
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.