Ellis v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 791 · 1949
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably John W. Wilson v. Volkswagen of America, Inc., a New York Corporation and Volkswagenwerk, A. G., a Foreign Corporation, Wolfsburg, Western Germany (1977), United States of America, Libelant-Appellant v. Eastport Steamship Corporation (1958)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Morse v. Lewis · Fletcher v. Bryan · Johnson v. Riddle · United States v. McIntosh
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the courts, in order to reach a just result, will make use of established and uncontroverted facts not formally of record in the pending litigation'”
2 later decisions 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.