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183 F.2d 698 · 1950

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
2
states following
February 2016
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Capoeman v. United States (1971), W. D. Greenshields v. Warren Petroleum Corporation, a Corporation, Julius Livingston and Livingston Oil Company, a Corporation v. Warren Petroleum Corporation, a Corporation (1957)

27 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions

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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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Oldland v. Gray · Neel v. Barnard · Purdy v. Johnson

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * could neither read nor speak the English language, he knew and understood only what was explained to him through an interpreter, and even then it is manifest on this record that he had little or no knowledge or understanding of his affairs, or the manner in which they were being administered. * * *”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “* * * neither the statute of limitations nor laches operate to bar a claim based upon undiscovered fraud or fraud of which the plaintiff was justifiably ignorant. * * *”
    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.