Dickerson v. Shepard Warner Elevator Co.’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.2d 255 · 1961
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Alman Bros. Farms & Feed Mill, Inc. v. Diamond Laboratories, Inc. (1971), Harris v. Smith (1967)
48 federal appellate · 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Wilkerson v. McCarthy · 127 Ohio St. 469 - Hamden Lodge No. 517 v. Ohio Fuel Gas Co. · Lovas v. General Motors Corp.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] witness experienced in technical matters and qualified to do so, may give his opinion as to the cause of a matter even though it may involve an ultimate fact to be finally decided by the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“< * -x- * Where a hypothetical question leaves out facts in evidence which so qualify the facts included that an answer to the question would be misleading and based upon inadequate premises, objection to the question should be sustained.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it cannot be said that the omitted fact was an integral or necessary part of the factual premise to the expert's conclusion, it is not essential that such fact be included in the question.”
1 later decision 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.