Ferguson v. Manning’s Empirical Analysis
216 F.2d 188 · 1954
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1980
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Brown v. Allen · State v. FERGUSON
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is too well settled to admit of argument that the federal courts are bound by the interpretation placed upon the statutes of a state by its highest court . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paine v. Baker
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.