Irwin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 249 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Hayden v. First National Bank (1979), Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (1988)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Corn Products Refining Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Brunswick Corp. v. Vineberg · Vera Croley, Etc. v. Matson Navigation Company, David E. Bouler v. Matson Navigation Company · National Labor Relations Board v. Smith Industries, Inc. · Booth Newspapers, Inc. v. The United States. The Evening News Association v. The United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, "where motive, intent, subjective feelings and reactions, consciousness and conscience [are] to be searched, and examination and cross-examination [are] necessary instruments in obtaining the truth,” summary judgment is inappropriate. Alabama Great So. R.R. Co. v. Louisville and Nashville R.R. Co., supra at 5.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weidel v. Ashcroft“T)he jury would be free to find that (Manufacturers') burden had not been met because of possible lack of credibility of (its) witness. . . .”
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.