Robert Rowland Hargraves, Jr. v. Leslie S. Bowden, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.2d 839 · 1954
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2007
12 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. Gallagher · Coursey v. International Harvester Co. · Markham v. Kallimanis
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorneys should make an attempt to conform to the rules and not try to improvise new practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Stone
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.