Fields Engineering & Equipment, Inc. v. Cargill, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
651 F.2d 589 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Bankr. L. Rep. P 71,860, 3 Ucc rep.serv.2d 1700 Thomas E. Wegner v. Cecelia Grunewaldt, Trustee Valley National Bank, a National Banking Corporation and the South Dakota Department of Revenue (1987), April M. Clark v. Marvin T. Runyon, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service (2000)
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Bagamasbad · Will v. United States · Lakota Girl Scout Council, Inc. v. Havey Fund-Raising Management, Inc. · Builders Steel Co. v. Commissioner · Carr v. Yokohama Specie Bank, Ltd.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was unnecessary for the District Court to make a finding [under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52] on each of plaintiff's theories of recovery when its ultimate findings were dispositive of the issues”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not required to assert the negative of each rejected argument as well as the affirmative of those he finds to be correct.”
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.