Smith v. Ferrel’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 1074 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Pulla v. Amoco Oil Co. (1995), Jurgens v. McKasy (1991)
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Palmer v. Hoffman · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States · Rosenau Ex Rel. Rosenau v. City of Estherville · Harris v. Zurich Insurance · Myers v. Norfolk Livestock Market, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Were Floyd Jay Ferrel or Shirley M. Ferrel, doing business as Lakeside Manor Park negligent?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Ferrel
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.