Helmig v. Rockwell Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1985), Michael Meyers, Individually and as Representative of a Class v. Pennypack Woods Home Ownership Association and Marion A. Steinbronn (1977)
41 federal appellate · 66 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 Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. · Bruszewski v. United States · Hochman v. Mortgage Finance Corp. · Wallace's Estate · Portland Gold Mining Co. v. Stratton's Independence, Ltd.
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ultimate and controlling issues have been decided in a prior proceeding in which the present parties actually had an opportunity to appear and assert their rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““§ 99 Where Liability of a Person is Based Solely upon the Act of Another. “A valid judgment on the merits and not based on a personal defense, in favor of a person charged with the commission of a tort, * * * bars a subsequent action by the plaintiff against another responsible for the conduct of such person if the action is based solely upon the existence of a tort * * * by such person, whether or not the other person has a right of indemnity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well established that in order to grant a new trial on the basis of after-discovered evidence, the evidence must have been discovered since the trial and be such as could not have been obtained at the trial by the use of reasonable diligence; it must not be simply cumulative or merely to impeach the credibility of the witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.