Rawlings v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 96 · 1941
Citation profile
146 federal appellate · 38 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 397 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1942), Holmberg v. Armbrecht (1946)
146 federal appellate · 38 district · 11 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
reviewedFutrall v. Ray (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 63
Relies on McClaine v. Rankin · Pufahl v. Parks' Estate · McDonald v. Thompson · Strasburger v. Schram
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 397 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘after the cause of action shall accrue’ in the Arkansas Statute have their usual meaning and refer to ‘a complete and present cause of action.’ ””
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.