United States v. Hougham’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 69 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 596 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1971), Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. (1964)
188 federal appellate · 69 district · 72 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
reviewedUnited States v. E. B. Hougham, Owen Dailey, William E. Schwartze and Harlan L. McFarland E. B. Hougham, Owen Dailey, William E. Schwartze and Harlan L. McFarland v. United States (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Rex Trailer Company v. United States · Burgess v. Seligman · Michigan National Bank v. Michigan
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 596 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reject the approach that pleading is a game of skill in which one misstep by counsel may be decisive to the outcome and accept the principle that the purpose of pleading is to facilitate a proper decision on the merits.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was designed to facilitate the amendment of pleadings except where prejudice to the opposing party would result.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a generally accepted rule of law that where a judgment is appealed on the ground that the damages awarded are inadequate, acceptance of payment of the amount of the unsatisfactory judgment does not, standing alone, amount to an accord and satisfaction of the entire claim.”
6 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.