Peckham v. Scanlon’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.2d 761 · 1957
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr (1966), Littleton v. Berbling (1972)
43 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Helvering v. Gowran · Kenney v. Fox · Cawley v. Warren · Jennings v. Nester
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 positive language of the rule appears to leave no room for interpretation or construction other than that it confers an absolute right, of which the pleader cannot be deprived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The inescapable point is that plaintiff... is entitled as a right to make the attempt”
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.