Selected Products Corp. v. Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 821 · 1936
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2013
17 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
Relies on Little v. Bowers · Jones v. Montague · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Dennis · American Book Company v. State of Kansas Galen Nichols · United States 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It follows that if, pending an appeal, an event occurs which renders it impossible for the appellate court to grant any relief, or renders a decision unnecessary, the appeal will be dismissed. * * * “This rule has been applied, where pending the appeal or after suing out of a writ of error, appellant obeyed the commands of the decree.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There must be an actual controversy; an appeal will not be entertained to determine moot questions, and it will be dismissed, therefore, if by act of the parties or otherwise the circumstances have so changed that it is impossible or unnecessary for the appellate court to grant relief.”
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.