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422 F.2d 1139 · 1970

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
1
states following
July 2021
most recently cited

30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Finney v. Arkansas Board of Correction (1974), Clark v. Marsh (1981)

30 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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 Mayo v. Lakeland Highlands Canning Co. · Indian Towing Co. v. United States · Hurwitz v. Hurwitz · Leon F. Urbain and Loxit Systems, Inc. v. Knapp Brothers Manufacturing Company, Al Levinson, Charles Levinson, and Robert Levinson · Featherstone v. Barash

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “all actions tried upon the facts without a jury . . ..”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Armstrong v. Collier · Clark v. Marsh
  2. “[w]here the trial court fails to make findings ... on a material issue, and an appeal is taken, the appellate court will normally vacate the judgment and remand the action for appropriate findings to be made.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Nipper
  3. “in granting or refusing interlocutory injunctions the court shall similarly set forth findings of fact and conclusions of law which constitute the grounds for its decisions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Sierra Club, Lone Star Chapter v. Federal Deposit Insurance

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.