Fulford v. Forman’s Empirical Analysis
245 F.2d 145 · 1957
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Austin (1961), Henderson v. Flemming (1960)
29 federal appellate · 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 United States v. American Trucking Associations · Wickard v. Filburn · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins · Shapiro v. United States · Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A review committee shall have jurisdiction to hear timely filed applications respecting quotas established or denied. * * * In all cases the review committee shall consider only such matters as under applicable provisions of the act and regulations of the Secretary, are required or permitted to be considered by the County Committee in the establishment of the quota sought to be reviewed.” 7 C.F.R. § 711.12 (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * But since the standards to be followed are invariably general, and many are so flexible that they would open up avenues for discrimination whether intentional, inadvertent, corrupt, or accidental, there was need for another agency, the County Review Committee, having local roots and hence local responsibility for the review of such actions. * * * >>”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kephart v. Wilson“sets forth formula which, to the tutored, reflects the product hammered out in the legislative process, but to the uninitiated, appears to be an unintelligible stream of words. * * *”
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.