Nickell v. United States ex rel. D. W. Falls, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.2d 73 · 1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2011
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Linkletter v. Walker · United States Ex Rel. Sherman v. Carter Constr. Co. · Jones v. Martin · Empire Petroleum Co. v. Sinclair Pipeline Co. · Wolters Village Management Co. v. The Merchants & Planters National Bank of Sherman
Most-quoted passages
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“an assignment must manifest an intention to assign and must describe the subject matter with sufficient particularity to render it capable of identification.” Nickell v. U.S. 355 F.2d 73 (10th Cir. 1966). See also Miller v. Wells Fargo Bank International 540 F.2d 548, 558 (2d Cir. 1976). The courts have further held that”
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.