McKenna v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.2d 659 · 1943
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 23 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1971), Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield (1954)
59 federal appellate · 23 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Perry v. United States · George's Radio, Inc. v. Capital Transit Co. · City of Chicago v. Babcock · Hall v. Lanning · Consolidated Coach Corporation v. Burge
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the settlement is made and accepted as full satisfaction or merely as the best obtainable compromise for the settler's liability is the crucial issue, and ordinarily one of fact. If however the agreement's terms leave no room for doubt, the decision should be made as a matter of law.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen the plaintiff has accepted satisfaction in full for the injury done him, from whatever source it may come, he is so far affected in equity and good conscience, that the law will not permit him to recover again for the same damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.