Smith v. James Irvine Foundation’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 772 · 1968
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1997
16 federal appellate ·
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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pacific Portland Cement Co. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp. · Glens Falls Indemnity Co. v. United States · Carr v. Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd. · Anderson v. Federal Cartridge Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presumption of correctness by demonstrating that contrary findings are warranted when the evidence is taken as a whole and considered in a light most favorable to the appellee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A finding is 'clearly erroneous' when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
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.