Tepper v. Chichester’s Empirical Analysis
285 F.2d 309 · 1960
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably Klein v. Tabatchnick (1979), Securities & Exchange Commission v. F. O. Baroff Co. (1974)
21 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 Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford · Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank · Ex parte Davis · Corn Exchange Nat Bank Trust Co Philadelphia v. Klauder · Holt v. Crucible Steel Company of America
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reclamation proceedings, the findings of the referee on questions of intent . are questions of fact, or in some instances, mixed questions of law and of fact, and the findings of the referee . will not be set aside on anything less than a demonstration of clear mistake in applying the law.”
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.