Silverlight v. Huggins’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2016
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1471
Relies on 135 Ind. App. 167 - MALONE, ADMR. ETC. v. Conner · Phillips v. HA Marr Grocery Company · State Ex Rel. Strenge v. Westling · People v. Cornish · People v. Martin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Curative” legislation, however, does not include any law which happens to have as its purpose the rectification of a previously existing inequity. Rather it is limited to laws which are intended to permit the accomplishment of a previously enacted design, which has failed to achieve its expected legal consequences by reason of some statutory inadequacy or irregularity-”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.