Corcoran v. Royal Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 957 · 1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2009
5 federal appellate · 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 Lion Bonding & Surety Co. v. Karatz · Handley v. Stutz · Pianta v. H. M. Reich Co. · Jones v. Mutual Fidelity Co. · Hutchinson Box Board & Paper Co. v. Horn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but it is absurd to speak of a judgment as 'declaratory' in so far as it ‘declares’ no more than is necessary to sustain the immediate relief prayed, for in that sense every action is for a 'declaratory judgment.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“adjudication of rights other than those on which the immediate relief is dependent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lutu v. Ale
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.