Mercer v. Theriot’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 6 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman (1969), Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. (1973)
132 federal appellate · 6 district · 22 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
reviewedMercer v. Theriot (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Urie v. Thompson · Messenger v. Anderson · Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. · Reece v. State of Georgia · Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company v. Wolf Brothers & Company
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'before the court of appeals upon the second appeal,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdiction to consider all of the substantial federal questions determined in the earlier stages of the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The evidence was sufficient under any standard which might be appropriate — state or federal.”
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.