Herrmann v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Boyd Leedom, as Chairman and Members of National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No. 108, Afl-Cio, General Cable Corporation v. Boyd Stewart Leedom, Individually and as Chairman and Members of and Constituting National Labor Relations Board (1960), Cecil Corley Motor Co., Inc. v. General Motors Corp. (1974)
22 federal appellate · 15 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Territo v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is vacated, and the cause is remanded to it, to consider whether, under the law of property of Idaho, it was possible, after the time of the making of the conveyance, for any person other than the named beneficiaries of the trust to acquire a property interest in it (other than through a named beneficiary), and, in the light of its determination as to this, to reconsider its holding that respondent was entitled to all the trust funds remaining in the hands of the trustee.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Petition for writ of certiorari granted. Judgment vacated, ánd case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for further consideration in light of Halo.... Justice ALITO took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.”
1 later decision 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.