Nicol v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
234 F.2d 691 · 1956
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2018
6 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had been served with a complaint which demanded relief against it in its capacity as executor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“name nowhere appear[ed] in the body of the complaint,”
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.