Doehla Greeting Cards, Inc. v. Summerfield’s Empirical Analysis
227 F.2d 44 · 1955
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2005
10 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1339 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009
Relies on Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Switchmen's Union of North America v. Ogden Union Railway & Depot Co. · West Coast Exploration Co. v. McKay · Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. Farley · Arizona ex rel. Arizona State Board of Public Welfare v. Hobby
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but, rather, whether the Director's action, even if legally erroneous, was beyond the scope of his statutory authority. We conclude that it was not. 22 Congress explicitly gave the Director the general power to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muirhead v. Mecham
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.