Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 510 · 1941
Citation profile
293 federal appellate · 56 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 880 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green (1946), Protective Committee for Independent Stockholders of TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. v. Anderson (1968)
293 federal appellate · 56 district · 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDu Bois v. Consolidated Rock Products Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pepper v. Litton · Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Boyd · Taylor v. Standard Gas & Electric Co.
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 880 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since its application requires a prediction as to what will occur in the future, an estimate, as distinguished from mathematical certitude, is all that can be made. But that estimate must be based on an informed judgment which embraces all facts relevant to future earning capacity and hence to present worth, including, of course, the nature and condition of the properties, the past earnings record, and all circumstances which indicate whether or not that record is a reliable criterion of future performance.””
38 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.