May Department Stores Co. v. International Leasing Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 138 · 1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Jordan v. Retirement Committee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1995), 17 F. Supp. 2d 275 - Granite Partners, LP v. Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. (1998)
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Katara v. De Jones Commodities Inc O · 448 F. Supp. 622 - National American Corp. v. Federal Republic of Nigeria · National American Corp. v. Federal Republic of Nigeria · Healy v. Rich Products Corp. · Dresser Industries, Inc. v. Pyrrhus AG
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n agreement of one party to give, and another party to accept, in settlement of an existing or matured claim, a sum or performance other than that to which he believes himself entitled, is an accord,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a material, false representation, an intent to defraud thereby, and reasonable reliance on the representation, causing damage to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he execution of the agreement is a satisfaction.”
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.