Helen Smith Nelson, of Arthur E. Nelson, Deceased v. Swing-A-Way Manufacturing Company, a Corporation, and Idus L. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
266 F.2d 184 · 1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2011
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Commissioner v. Sunnen · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Yates v. United States · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'look to the pleadings * * * and examine the record to determine the questions essential to the decision of the former controversy'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilder v. Thomas · Wilder v. Thomas“The doctrine of collateral estoppel applies to matters necessarily decided in the former judgment even if there is no specific finding or reference thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMahan v. Toto
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.