Mims v. Shapp’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 415 · 1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably School Asbestos Litigation Pfizer Inc v. Kelly Kaiser Cement Corporation (1992), Liberty Lobby, Inc. v. Dow Jones & Co. (1988)
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Thompson · Simmons v. United States · Hodgson v. Liquor Salesmen's Union Local No. 2 of the State of New York · United States v. Townsend
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an attitude toward petitioner that is significantly different from and more particularized than the normal, general feelings of society at large”
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.