Donnie R. McCormick v. Frances G. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
506 F.2d 1205 · 1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Eaton v. Hobson · Bruce Construction Corp. v. United States ex rel. Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. · Bailey T. Debardeleben and Richard Egan, Surviving Trustees of Debardeleben Employee's Retirement Plan v. Marcellus M. Cummings · McCormick v. State · McCormick v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the adversary is required to adequately demonstrate by receivable facts that a real, not a formal, controversy exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Herald Co.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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