Roth v. Bird’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.2d 257 · 1956
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably Cobb v. Lewis (1974), In re the Vessel Marine Sulphur Queen (1972)
57 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Schulz v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Lindgren v. United States · Whiteman v. Pitrie · Commercial Credit Corp. v. Pepper · Bratt v. Western Air Lines, Inc.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rules have for their primary purpose the securing of speedy and inexpensive justice in a uniform and well ordered manner; they were not adopted to set traps and pitfalls by way of technicalities for unwary litigants * * * Therefore, substantial compliance with the rule is sufficient, and appellant’s petition for leave to appeal in forma pawperis adequately met the requirements of Rule 73(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It must be remembered that the court is not the judge of the quality of the evidence, nor does the witness perform the function of a juror-he can only contribute something to the jury's information and if he can, he should be permitted to do so. Especially is this true, where as here the answer to the crucial question is necessarily left to those claiming special knowledge based upon experience. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under such circumstances, it seems to us that the district court, in denying the discovery sought, exercised its discretion improvidently and in reliance upon a wrong principle; and that, in so doing, it committed a fully reviewable error of law.” (Citing cases.)”
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.