Meredith v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 764 · 1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Robinson v. Watts Detective Agency, Inc. (1982), LaCombe v. A-T-O, Inc. (1982)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-Appellees · Kestenbaum v. Falstaff Brewing Corp. · Ecology Center of Louisiana, Inc. v. Coleman · Reeves v. City of Jackson
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.
“(a)n owner is always competent to give his opinion,”
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.