Acker v. Schulte’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1980
4 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 Missouri Kansas Texas Pailway Company v. Sallie C Wulf · Grand Trunk Western Railway Company v. George Lindsay · 69 F. Supp. 512 - Kardon v. National Gypsum Co. · Baird v. Frankline · Park & Tilford, Inc. v. Schulte
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to give protection against “strike” suits or litigation brought in bad faith, the court is authorized to assess reasonable costs, including attorneys’ fees, against either party to the suit, and even to require in advance an undertaking for the payment of such costs. Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Senate Report 792, 73rd Congress, 2nd Session, p. 18.”
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.