General Electric Co. v. Irvin’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.2d 175 · 1960
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party (1977), Jones v. Bender Welding & Machine Works, Inc. (1978)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on General Electric Company, and Third-Party v. Kelly C. Moretz, and Mason & Dixon Lines, Inc., Third-Party · General Taxicab Ass'n v. O'shea · Duke v. Reconstruction Finance Corp. · Missouri ex rel. Ward v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a defendant may move * * * for leave as a third-party plaintiff to serve a summons and complaint * * * [and] if the motion is granted * * * the person so served, hereinafter called the third-party defendant, shall make his defenses * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“and the timeliness of the motion is an urgent factor governing the exercise of such discretion.”
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.