Voris v. Eikel’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
357 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 545 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Estate of Cowart v. Nicklos Drilling Co. (1992), Reed v. Steamship Yaka (1963)
357 federal appellate · 24 district · 6 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
reviewedVoris v. Eikel (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · Norton v. Warner Co. · Wales ex rel. Wales Trucking Co. v. United States · Baltimore Philadelphia Steamboat Co v. Norton
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 545 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be liberally construed in conformance with its purpose, and in a way which avoids harsh and incongruous results.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are to be accepted unless they are unsupported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole.”
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.