Folsom v. Pearsall’s Empirical Analysis
245 F.2d 562 · 1957
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Technical Tape Corp. v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (1957), Flaxman v. Flaxman (1971)
17 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · De Sylva v. Ballentine · Millar v. Millar · 45 Cal. 2d 872 - Sefton v. Sefton · Sleicher v. Sleicher
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The widow * * * of an individual who died a fully insured individual after 1939, if such widow— “(A) has not remarried, * * * * * “shall be entitled to a widow’s insurance benefit * *”
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.