Shapiro v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Eggleston v. Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union No. 130 (1981), Noonan v. Cunard Steamship Co. (1967)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Scott Paper Co. v. McAllister Lighterage Line, Inc. · V L P Cavett Company · First Iowa Hydro Electric Cooperative v. Iowa-Illinois Gas & Electric Co. · Raughley v. Pennsylvania Railroad
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were designed as an affirmative aid to substantive justice, and those who choose to read them restrictively do so at their peril. It is time that depositions be conducted by members of the bar in a cooperative manner, in accordance with both the letter and spirit of the rules, without petty bickering and without intervention by busy courts with more important matters pressing for attention. It is clear to us that plaintiffs’ attorney has no conception of his obligation to observe the rules ‘as an officer of the court’ or otherwise. Rather, he appears to be bent on concealing vital facts or, at best, waging a war of delay, expense, Harassment and frustration. There is no justification for his conduct, no basis at all for his instructing the deponents not to answer. As a result, the cooperative atmosphere envisaged by the federal rules has been poisoned by antagonism.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)t is not the prerogative of counsel, but of the court to rule on objections.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel for party had no right to impose silence or instruct witnesses not to answer and if he believed questions to be without scope of orders he should have done nothing more than state his objections.”
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.