Nixon v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.2d 833 · 1930
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1985
7 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
Relies on Southern Pac Co v. Lowe · Lynch v. Hornby · United States v. United Shoe Machinery Co. · Lynch v. Turrish · Donnell v. Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Co.
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.
“Whatever they might have done, they did what they did.”
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.