Soby v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 193 · 1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1973
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · United States v. Behan · International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union v. Juneau Spruce Corp. · United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Excelsior Terra Cotta Co. v. . Harde
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compensation of attorneys. The measure and mode of compensation of attorneys shall be left to the agreement, expressed or implied, of the parties; but there may be allowed to the prevailing party in the judgment certain sums by way of indemnity for his attorney fees in maintaining the action or defense thereto, which allowances are termed costs.””
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.