Seitz v. Michel’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Waller v. Waller (1946), Colonial Refrigerated Transportation, Inc. v. Mitchell (1968)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 20 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 West v. Camden · 76 N.J. Eq. 592 - Jackson v. Hooper · Niles v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. · Jones v. Williams · Guernsey v. Cook
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as to whether every combination of `gentlemen's' agreement among the principal stockholders should be held to be unenforceable if the parties choose to repudiate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glazer v. Glazer“they had the right to have defendant exercise his independent judgment in casting his vote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glazer v. Glazer“strictly to the facts as they appear from the complaint”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glazer v. Glazer
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.