Bertha Blum v. George A. Cottrell’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.2d 689 · 1960
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2011
9 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 Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · Steele v. Crocker · Bantel v. Brownell · Yellow Cab Co. v. Eden · Wright v. Osborne
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he question was one for the jury and not for the judge ... [but] the ruling was not so prejudicial to the plaintiff as to require a reversal of the judgment.”
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.