Seagraves v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
69 F.2d 163 · 1934
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Wichita Royalty Co v. City Nat Bank of Wichita Falls (1939), Lincoln National Life Insurance v. Roosth (1962)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Messenger v. Anderson · Ex Parte Charles Sibbald v. The United States · Southern Railway Co. v. Clift · Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations of Kansas · Great Western Tel Co v. Burnham
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court, so long as it has jurisdiction over the controversy, ought to have power to do justice according to law, and should be more ready to correct its own previous error, if such clearly appears, than to correct the errors of the District Court. Justice is better than consistency. The court is not bound at the will of litigants to revise its previous holdings, but, when itself convinced that it should, it can.”
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.