Francis L. Dobb, Etc. v. George P. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
505 F.2d 1041 · 1974
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. (1979), Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1982)
66 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Hormel v. Helvering · Lilly v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad · Crane v. Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway Co.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so compelling as virtually to insure appellant's success.”
9 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.