Lee v. Frozen Food Express, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 271 · 1979
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Chemetron Corporation v. Business Funds, Inc. (1982), Kansa Reinsurance Company Ltd v. Congressional Mortgage Corporation of Texas United Postal Savings & Loan Assn (1994)
26 federal appellate ·
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 · Puckett v. Commissioner · Mrs. Gwendolyn L. Moczygemba, Miss Vickie Leonard v. Danos and Curole Marine Contractors, Inc., Gulf Oil Corporation · Dickerson v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] prior panel decision should be followed by other panels without regard to any alleged existing confusion in state law, absent a subsequent state court decision or statutory amendment which makes this Court's [prior] decision clearly wrong.”
7 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.