Mercer v. Theriot’s Empirical Analysis
316 F.2d 635 · 1963
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986
7 federal appellate ·
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
Relationships
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co. · Frank v. Maryland · Vick v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to plaintiff to make such a motion, and the denial by the district court was a final decision that the plaintiff had failed to meet the terms of the mandate and that, as such, the denial of the motion was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hennessy v. Schmidt
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.