William Heikkila v. Bruce G. Barber, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 558 · 1962
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Hilao v. Estate of Marcos (1996), Hilao v. Estate of Marcos (1994)
10 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Schreiber v. Sharpless · Sullivan v. Associated Billposters & Distributors of United States & Canada
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A cause of action which is given by a federal statute, if no specific provision is made by act of Congress for its survival, survives or not according to the principles of the common 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.