Fennell v. Bache’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.2d 905 · 1941
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably J. Edward Day v. William H. Avery (1977), No 12267 (1958)
9 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co · Henry L. Doherty & Co. v. Goodman · Matson v. Mackubin · East Denver Municipal Irr. Dist. v. Doherty · Davidson v. Henry L. Doherty & Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the rule [Rule 17(b)] is to keep or bring the procedure of the federal courts in conformity with that of the courts of the state in which the district court is held, as respects the capacity of partnerships or unincorporated associations for suing and being sued, except when the state court follows the common law and a federal substantive right is involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. No 12267“44 Yale Law J. 1291, 1315; United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co., 1922, 259 U.S. 344 , 42 S.Ct. 570, 66 L.Ed. 975. But as to cases in which jurisdiction is based upon diversity, as the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit stated in Fennell v. Bache, 1941, 74 App.D.C. 247, 123 F.2d 905, 906;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. No 12267
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.