W. S. Shamban & Co. v. Commerce & Industry Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
475 F.2d 34 · 1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1996
16 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Orvis v. Higgins · United States v. Ironworkers Local 86 · Lundgren v. Freeman · Pacific Portland Cement Co. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp.
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.
“A finding is 'clearly erroneous' when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
2 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.