Swofford v. B & W, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 26 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Curtis v. Loether (1974), Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants- Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. And Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc. v. McDonald Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., Defendants (1977)
102 federal appellate · 26 district · 8 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 Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Gasoline Products Co. v. Champlin Refining Co. · Simler v. Conner · Arnstein v. Porter
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should grant a jury trial in the absence of strong and compelling reasons to the contrary.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * This is not to say, however, that they have converted typical non-jury claims, or remedies, into jury ones. Therefore, we reject a view that the trio of Beacon Theatres, Dairy Queen, and Thermo-Stitch is a catalyst which suddenly converts any money request into a money claim triable by jury.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue to be tried must be so distinct and separable from the others that a trial of it alone may be had without injustice.”
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.