Evans v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
276 F. 650 · 1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Byron Babbitt v. Howard Dutcher T · Robert Moody & Son v. Century Savings Bank · In re Veler · Barnes v. Pampel
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.
“The receiver could not, and of course was not expected to, manage a business of this magnitude without expert assistants. He did employ a competent and experienced man as general manager and another competent and experienced man as bookkeeper. Had he failed to do this, he would have been guilty of gross negligence. While it is suggested that these men purposely falsified the accounts and delivered to him false inventories, nevertheless it is not contended that the receiver had any reason to believe that these inventories and accounts were not correct, * * * 65”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for losses incurred in the operation of the business.”
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.