Leishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 203 · 1943
Citation profile
140 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably Hohn v. United States (1998), United States v. Crescent Amusement Co. (1944)
140 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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
reviewedLeishman v. Associated Wholesale Electric Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp. · Zimmern v. United States · Department of Banking State of Nebraska v. Pink · Morse 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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[W]here a petition for rehearing, a motion for a new trial, or a motion to vacate, amend or modify a judgment is seasonably made and entertained, the time for appeal does not begin to run until the disposition of the motion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reconsideration of certain basic findings of fact and the alteration of the conclusions of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere matters of form but raised questions of substance,”
1 later decision 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.