Stokes v. Peyton's Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 1287 · 1975
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1992 · most notably Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. (1982), Kirtland v. J. Ray McDermott & Co. (1978)
19 federal appellate · 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 Foman v. Davis · Gillespie v. United States Steel Corp. · United Mine Workers of America v. Benedict Coal Corporation · Haas v. Palace Hotel Co. · Ruby v. Secretary of the United States Navy
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(T)his court has consistently adhered to the policy of exercising all proper means to prevent the loss of valuable rights when the validity of an appeal is challenged not because something was done too late, but rather because it was done too soon,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Bolger“obvious that the overriding intent was effectively to appeal, and (that) no prejudice would result to the appellee ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Bolger
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.