Comer v. Fistere’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2006
7 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 Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · Morris v. Jones · American Mills Co. v. American Surety Co. · Gold Seal Co. v. Weeks · Childers v. Beaver
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Compulsory Counterclaims. A pleading shall state as a counterclaim any claim which at the time of serving the pleading the pleader has against any opposing party, if it arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the opposing party’s claim and does not require for its adjudication the presence of third parties of whom the court cannot acquire jurisdiction, except that such a claim need not be so stated if at the time the ing action.” This is identical with the federal rule (Rule 13(a), 28 U.S.C.A.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacDonald v. Krause“[t]he claim ... attack[ed] the same contract which was the subject matter of [the original] action.”
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.