Jackson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.2d 513 · 1930
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Massaglia v. Commissioner (1961), 426 So. 2d 585 - Succession of Clivens (1983)
17 federal appellate · 2 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 Hagar v. · Burgess v. Seligman · Norton v. Shelby County · Byers v. McAuley · Scott v. McNeal
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The construction, by the highest court of the state * * * is binding upon the national courts. [Citations.] Where such decisions are in conflict, the national courts will follow the latest settled adjudications of the highest court of the state rather than the earlier ones, [citations] excepting in eases where contracts have been theretofore entered into or rights or titles acquired on the faith of the earlier decisions. [Citations.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In effect, it declares that the former decision never was the law.”
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.