Fields v. Wolfson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1983
1 federal appellate · 1 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 MacAlister v. Guterma
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The consolidation . . . would serve the purpose of avoiding needless duplication of time, effort and expense on the part of the parties and the court in the conduct of pretrial discovery proceedings and of the trial itself. It would also enable the proceedings to be expedited and make for economy and convenience generally in the administration of the litigation.” (at 330).”
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.