Sherman v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.2d 516 · 1961
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Greenwood Trust Company v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1992), Payne v. SS Tropic Breeze (1970)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 Glasser v. United States · Harisiades v. Shaughnessy · Shaughnessy v. United States Ex Rel. Mezei · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Nu-Enamel 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is not unusual for the same word to have differing connotations in the same act and surely no canon of statutory construction forecloses courts from attributing to the word the meaning which the legislature intended that it should have in each instance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] special inquiry officer shall conduct proceedings under this section to determine the deportability of any alien, and shall administer oaths, present and receive evidence, interrogate, examine, and cross-examine the alien or witnesses, * * *”
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.