Block v. Nathan Anklet Support Co.’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.2d 311 · 1925
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Stearns v. Rasor (1955), Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. v. Midwestern Instruments, Inc. (1961)
17 federal appellate · 7 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 Coffin v. Ogden · Buser v. Novelty Tufting Machine Co. · United Shirt & Collar Co. v. Beattie · Stitt v. Eastern R. Co. · Imperial Brass Mfg. Co. v. Nelson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * but in such cases probability, even extreme probability, is not enough. The proof must be as absolute as in a criminal conviction; indeed, the rule comes nearly to this, that one must have contemporaneous records, verbal or structural.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.