Walker v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
320 F.2d 302 · 1963
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Simmons v. City of Philadelphia (1991), Sanford Bros. Boats, Inc. v. Vidrine (1969)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · The Osceola · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. · Atlantic & Gulf Stevedores, Inc. v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court should not be reversed on grounds that were never urged or argued in the court below.”
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.