Sparrow v. Yellow Cab Co.’s Empirical Analysis
273 F.2d 1 · 1959
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. White (1989), United States v. Gomez (1994)
28 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621
Relies on Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Duncan · Esso Standard Oil Co. v. Secatore's, Inc. · Smith v. J. C. Penney Co. · Lambie v. Tibbits · National Labor Relations Board v. Knight Morley Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * In all appendices, the evidence may be abstracted or reduced to narrative form. If appellant or petitioner raises a question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support a finding, ruling, order, verdict or judgment, he shall include in the appendix all evidence pertinent thereto.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We hold that, because of the failure of appellant to comply sufficiently with Rule 16(b) of the Rules of this court in the preparation of the appendix to his brief in this appeal, we cannot say that there was sufficient evidence of defendant’s negligence, looking at it in the light most favorable to plaintiff, to warrant sending this case to the jury.””
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.