McDonnell v. Timmerman’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 54 · 1959
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Solomon Dehydrating Company, Incorporated v. Clarence R. Guyton, Central Greyhound Lines, Incorporated, and the Greyhound Corporation (1961), E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Berkley & Co. (1980)
50 federal appellate · 6 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 Illinois ex rel. Kennedy v. Hurley · Jackson v. King · Chicago Great Western Railway Company v. Walter R. Casura and Swift & Company, Swift & Company v. Walter R. Casura and Chicago Great Western Railway Company · Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Epperson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“submitted to the jury without an accompanying instruction explaining the legal standards which they are to apply”
2 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.