Mary E. Lewis v. John D. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
277 F.2d 207 · 1960
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably County of Suffolk v. Long Island Lighting Co. (1990), Hanson v. Ford Motor Co. (1960)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation · Dick v. New York Life Insurance · Moore v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. · Muriel Jeanne Homolla v. Shirley C. Gluck · Russell v. Turner
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * is not entitled to the benefit of unreasonable inferences, or inferences at war with undisputed facts.”
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.