Meredith v. John Deere Plow Co.’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 196 · 1953
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2000
9 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
Relies on United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Angel v. Bullington · Northern Pacific Railway Company v. Jacob Slaght · Aurora City v. West · Meredith v. John Deere Plow 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The District Court, in dismissing the [complaint] in the instant action relied upon the former decision of this Court as having put an end to this controversy. The District Court was right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the agreement upon which the plaintiff relied was not enforceable against the defendant, being terminable at will”
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.