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259 F.2d 774 · 1958

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
2
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Lease (1965), Stewart v. United States (1968)

23 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions

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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 Guerini Stone Co. v. P. J. Carlin Construction Co. · Kolatz v. Kelly · John Catts v. James Phalen · Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. Felgenhauer

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a] party cannot claim error in the refusal to give a requested instruction which is not entirely correct, or which it is not possible to give without qualification, or which is so framed as to be capable of being misunderstood.”
    3 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.