Acheson v. Droesse’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 574 · 1952
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably Weaver v. United Mine Workers of America (1973), Aviation Enterprises, Inc. v. Orr (1983)
27 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Quercia v. United States · Kalb v. Feuerstein · United States v. Alaska Steamship Co. · Duke Power Co. v. Greenwood County
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly directs the Courts of Appeals that in all civil cases in the United States courts which become moot pending appeal, and in which a motion to dismiss as moot is accompanied by a motion to direct that the judgment below be vacated, both motions should be granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“apparently intended by the Supreme Court to announce a rule for the guidance of the United States Courts of Appeals in disposing of cases which become moot pending appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he language of the Supreme Court in the Munsingwear case,”
1 later decision 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.