William Smith, Doing Business as Smith Entertainment Agency and as Smith & Dale Circus v. American Guild of Variety Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists v. William Smith, Doing Business as Smith Entertainment Agency and as Smith& Dale Circus’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.2d 511 · 1966
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 1996 · most notably Woosley v. United States (1973), Jasperson v. Purolator Courier Corp. (1985)
45 federal appellate · 2 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Hormel v. Helvering · United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. United States Bay Counties Dist Council of Carpenters · Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White · Dick v. New York Life Insurance
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Questions not raised, briefed nor argued will ordinarily be given no consideration by an appellate court.”
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.