Fecht v. Makowski’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.2d 721 · 1969
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Whitaker v. Beavin (1987), Suzuki of Orange Park, Inc. v. Shubert (1996)
8 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · Lake Tankers Corp. v. Henn · Bailey v. Smith · Pershing Auto Rentals, Inc. v. Gaffney · The Chickie
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where it is apparent that limitation cannot be granted.”
5 later decisions 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.