Zirinsky v. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 481 · 1969
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Vines v. Orchard Hills, Inc. (1980), Brown v. St. Louis Police Department (1982)
17 federal appellate · 13 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 Helvering v. Gowran · Cady v. Bush · Baffa v. Johnson · Miller v. Snedeker · Georgopolis v. George
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.
““In Minnesota, as elsewhere, a provision for liquidated dam ages is generally held to be a convenient substitute as a reasonable forecast of general damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank v. Jansen“if the decision below is correct, it must be affirmed, although the lower court relied upon a wrong ground or gave a wrong reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pamida Inc
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.