Wilson v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 1152 · 1982
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2011
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Mohasco Corp. v. Silver · Love v. Pullman Co. · Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are generally reluctant to affirm a trial court's decision on legal grounds not considered by the trial court, and will do so only when the facts are sufficiently clear to permit a determination.”
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.