Fulenwider v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
262 F.2d 97 · 1958
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2006
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Berra v. United States · Vicksburg v. O'Brien · Galena Oaks Corporation v. Frank Scofield, Collector of Internal Revenue · Whiteman v. Pitrie · Insurance Company v. Mahone
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[R]ulings which rested largely in the sound discretion of the court . . . may be made the basis for reversal only where it is made to appear not merely that the ruling might have been the other way but that, as made, there was a grave and serious abuse of discretion . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.