Bernstein v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
256 F.2d 697 · 1958
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Taylor v. Burlington Northern Railroad (1986), Three Rivers Land Co., Inc. v. Maddoux (1982)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Jencks v. United States · United States v. Reynolds · Rex Trailer Company v. United States · United States v. Oregon Lumber 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party may also state as many separate claims or defenses as he has regardless of consistency and whether based on legal or on equitable grounds or on both.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rule of 'procedure or judicial administration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The election of remedies doctrine] has been consistently criticized as harsh and not a favorite of equity.”
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.