Martin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
284 F.2d 217 · 1960
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Mims v. United States (1967), Lindsey v. Miami Development Corp. (1985)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Davis v. United States · Curley v. United States · Durham v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co. · Carter 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the language of the law of evidence, (a medical opinion suggesting) that which is merely possible, standing alone and not offered as auxiliary or rebuttal testimony, is immaterial to the ascertainment of the fact and so is inadmissible as evidence of that fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.