Littlefield v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 956 · 1957
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2000
11 federal appellate · 2 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 County of St. Clair v. Lovingston · Weems Steamboat Company of Baltimore City v. People's Steamboat Company D · International Mercantile Marine Company v. · 63 Cal. App. 2d 772 - Carpenter v. City of Santa Monica · Frank v. Smith
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“though the witnesses may see from time to time that progress has been made, they could not perceive it while the process was going on,”
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.