Spriggs v. Hoffstot’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 76 · 1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1990
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Washingtonsouthern Nav Co v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co · Bardach Iron & Steel Co. v. Morgan · The Gloria · Partenreederei Wallschiff v. The Pioneer · The Grecian
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allows the [court] discretion whether or not to require bond from the cross-respondent....”
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.