Saper v. West’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 422 · 1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2011
8 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Gratiot County State Bank v. Johnson ex rel. St. Louis Chemical Co. · Dunsmoor v. Furstenfeldt · In re Weissman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“highly remote possibility that the trial court's judgment would be reversed on appeal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was no possible way in which (the bankrupt) could transfer these funds to a third party . . . until or unless that judgment were reversed. Under (applicable state) law no creditor could have obtained a lien on the fund 'in custodia legis.'”
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.