Ely v. Reading Co.’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 758 · 1970
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Michael Meyers, Individually and as Representative of a Class v. Pennypack Woods Home Ownership Association and Marion A. Steinbronn (1977), United States v. First National Bank of Circle (1981)
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Rogers v. Missouri Pacific Railroad · Ferguson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. · Jesse B. Manbeck v. Gerald S. Ostrowski · Miller v. Brazel
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ppellate interference with this discretion should be kept at a minimum.”
7 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.