United States v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 906 · 1962
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Featherstone v. Barash (1965), Kelley v. United States (1978)
21 federal appellate · 5 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 Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District · Washington & Georgetown Railroad v. Harmon's Administrator · Postal Telegraph & Cable Co. v. Doyle · 49 So. 2d 97 - Renuart Lumber Yards v. Levine · Weber v. McKee
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose of the award of damages is to compensate for the loss of earning capacity as distinguished from actual loss of earnings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weidner v. Lineback
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.