Kendall Sherman and Arthur Sherman, Jr. v. Fred H. Hallbauer’s Empirical Analysis
455 F.2d 1236 · 1972
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Dussouy v. Gulf Coast Investment Corp. (1981), William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. v. ITT Continental Baking Co. (1981)
43 federal appellate · 7 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 Bobby Jones Garden Apartments, Inc. v. Suleski · Emerson Electric Co. v. Farmer · Sickler v. Indian River Abstract & Guaranty Co. · Keating v. Jones Development of Missouri, Inc.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tefft v. Seward · Ganther v. Ingle“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not the ordinary reversal of a district court’s decision granting summary judgment.” Id. at 1237 . In Sherman, the court allowed the plaintiffs leave to amend when they finally presented a legally sound theory of the case, albeit a”
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.