Ward v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
208 F.2d 48 · 1953
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Miller v. Avirom (1967), Richard A. Williams and Alfred S. Trask v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia, Leonard N. Bebchick and Daniel W. Gottlieb v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. D.C. Transit System, Inc. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission (1969)
29 federal appellate · 6 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 Hormel v. Helvering · Blair v. Oesterlein Machine Co. · Powell v. Branman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There may always be exceptional cases or particular circumstances which will prompt a reviewing or appellate court, where injustice might otherwise result, to consider questions of law which were neither pressed nor passed upon by the court or administrative agency below. See Blair v. Oesterlein Machine Co., 275 U.S. 220 , 225, 48 S.Ct. 87, 88, 72 L.Ed. 249.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stouper v. Jones“1. That plaintiff was removed for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the classified civil service and for reasons given in writing. 5”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Ward
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.