Patton v. Guyer’s Empirical Analysis
443 F.2d 79 · 1971
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2014
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 Thompson v. General Finance Co., Inc. · P. W. Siebrand & Hiko Siebrand, Doing Business as Siebrand Bros., Circus and Carnival v. George F. Gossnell and Estella Gossnell, S. J. Carroll v. George F. Gossnell and Estella Gossnell · Page v. Citizens Banking Co. · Messinger v. Fulton · Hall ex rel. Hall v. McClure
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invariably some practical prejudice result[s] from an amendment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in terms of preparing their defense to the amendment.”
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.