Landy v. Silverman’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.2d 80 · 1951
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.) (1984), Griffeth v. Utah Power & Light Co. (1955)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Schumacher v. Beeler · Sprague v. Vogt · Fisher v. Cushman · Mansfield Lumber Co. v. Sternberg
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That one reasonably may surmise that the plaintiff is unlikely to prevail upon a trial, is not a sufficient basis for refusing him his day in court with respect to issues which are not shown to be sham, frivolous, or so unsubstantial that it would obviously be futile to try them.””
3 later decisions 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.