Harvey Aluminum, Inc. v. American Cyanamid Co.’s Empirical Analysis
203 F.2d 105 · 1953
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 23 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp. (1987), Oswalt v. Scripto, Inc. (1980)
83 federal appellate · 23 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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. § 2283
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · United States v. Corrick · Alabama v. United States · Kilpatrick v. Texas & P. Ry. 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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n action may be dismissed by the plaintiff without order of court (i) by filing a notice of dismissal at any time before service by the adverse party of an answer or of a motion for summary judgment, whichever first occurs.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a literal application of Rule 41(a)(1) to the present controversy would not be in accord with its essential purpose ofpreventing arbitrary dismissals after an advanced stage of a suit has been reached.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * the word `action' as used in the Rules [of Civil Practice] denotes the entire controvesy”
6 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.