Markham v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
369 F.2d 940 · 1966
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Leonhard v. United States (1980), May Marine Supply Company v. Brunswick Corporation (1981)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation · Lemke v. United States · Haas v. Palace Hotel Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)his court has consistently adhered to the policy of exercising all proper means to prevent the loss of valuable rights when the validity of an appeal is challenged not because something was done too late, but rather because it was done too soon,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“obvious that the overriding intent was effectively to appeal, and (that) no prejudice would result to the appellee ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Bolger
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.