Maher v. Hendrickson’s Empirical Analysis
188 F.2d 700 · 1951
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Merrill v. Merrill (1962), Irish v. United States (1955)
23 federal appellate · 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 Life Savers Corp. v. Curtiss Candy Co. · Shapiro v. Rubens · Skelly Oil Co. v. Holloway · Dearborn Nat. Casualty Co. v. Consumers Petroleum Co. · Smith v. Dental Products Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ultimate test as to the propriety of findings is whether they are sufficiently comprehensive to provide a basis for decision and supported by the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are far asea as to the exact factual basis upon which the judgment was founded.”
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.