Drabik v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 408 · 1957
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Roberts (1980), Starnes v. McGuire (1974)
37 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Magnetic Engineering & Manufacturing Co. v. Dings Mfg. Co. · Shapiro v. Bonanza Hotel Co. · 102 F. Supp. 51 - Phillips v. Pope & Talbot, Inc. · Bagner v. Blidberg Rothchild Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after the papers had been lodged in the office of the clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana . . . . the District Court for the Southern District of New York had already lost all jurisdiction over the action because the transfer was then complete”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the [petitioner] had moved seasonably for a stay [of the transfer order], and the stay had been denied, his motion might conceivably have preserved his right [to petition for a writ of mandamus], but he did not do so.”
5 later decisions 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.