Curtis v. Loether’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
917 federal appellate · 289 district · 331 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,724 later decisions (70 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore (1979), Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975)
917 federal appellate · 289 district · 331 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRogers v. Loether (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Ross v. Bernhard
Cited together with Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Ross v. Bernhard · Tull v. United States · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg
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 2,724 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Seventh Amendment does apply to actions enforcing statutory rights, and requires a jury trial upon demand, if the statute creates legal rights and remedies, enforceable in an action for damages in the ordinary courts of law.”
163 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an integral part of an equitable remedy, a form of restitution.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen legal and equitable claims are joined in the same action, 'the right to jury trial on the legal claim, including all issues common to both claims, remains intact.'”
24 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.