Luminous Unit Co. v. Freeman-Sweet Co.’s Empirical Analysis
3 F.2d 577 · 1924
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably White v. Higgins (1940), Barnett v. Jaspan (1942)
27 federal appellate · 1 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 Messenger v. Anderson · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co. · Tilghman v. Proctor · John Simmons Co. v. Grier Bros. · In re Potts
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... not an inexorable rule, and should not be applied where the law as announced is clearly erroneous, and establishes a practice which is contrary to the best interests of society, and works a manifest injustice in the particular case.”
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.