Freeman v. Ritner’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 431 · 1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2003
9 federal appellate ·
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 Martin v. National Surety Co. · Matter of Ideal Mercantile Corporation Ideal Mercantile Corporation · 157 Cal. App. 2d 375 - Prudential Insurance v. Broadhurst · Danning v. Mintz
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of assignment, then, while the assignor had a present existing claim against the United States, she could not effectively transfer to another the right as she enjoyed it, since she could not transfer to another the power to press the claim against the United States. One effect of the assignment, then, was to convert the right assigned into a future right — a right to the proceeds of payment once the claim was paid by the United States.”
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.