Ervin v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.2d 806 · 1938
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1956
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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Cockrell · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Schwyhart · Hay v. May Department Stores Co. · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Whiteaker
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“joint liability and of the bearing thereof on the question of remov-ability”
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.