Halprin v. Mora’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 197 · 1956
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2001 · most notably Gallick v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (1963), Floyd v. Laws (1991)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Skidmore v. Baltimore & O. R. · Jackson v. King · Richardson v. Patterson · Ferrell v. Solski
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the questions were not so understood, the silence of all counsel on the issue is incomprehensible. “A special verdict, finding, or answer must be construed in the light of the surrounding circumstances. It is to be construed in the light of, and in connection with, the pleadings, instructions, the issue or question submitted * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough questions three and four use the word 'award,' we think the court was only asking about the amount of loss and that the jury and all counsel so understood the questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“nowhere in the record furnished us do we find evidence that the plaintiff considered the answers confusing, or inconsistent or irreconcilable.”
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.