Willitt v. Purvis’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.2d 129 · 1960
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2020
18 federal appellate ·
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. · Bird v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n few, if any situations is the discretion of a trial judge broader than in granting a new trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without deduction for necessary or other personal expenses of the decedent had he lived.”
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.