Cheney v. Moler’s Empirical Analysis
285 F.2d 116 · 1960
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Jones v. Nelson (1973), Murphy v. City of Long Beach (1990)
26 federal appellate · 3 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 Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Hoiness v. United States · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Palmer · Fischer v. Howard
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the notice of appeal must be probed to determine whether or not the appeal is actually taken from a final judgment and an appeal will not be lost for what may be deemed 'hypertechnical' reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Nelson
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.