Bergeron v. Mansour’s Empirical Analysis
152 F.2d 27 · 1945
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Charles Clauson v. Robert D. Smith (1987), Washington v. United States (1954)
52 federal appellate · 12 district · 13 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Hormel v. Helvering · Le Tulle v. Scofield · Thompson v. Phenix Ins Co of Brooklyn N Y
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . There can be no doubt that the adjuster held out to the plaintiff the idea and hope of a settlement of her claim ... if she did not consult counsel. The plaintiff reasonably relied upon the representations and conduct of the defendant and allowed the statute to run before commencing her action . . . We think it is unconscionable to permit him to lull her into a false sense of security and cause her to let the one year limitation pass and then allow him to take advantage of the result of his conduct as a defense to her action . . .” (p. 30.)”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether `estoppel' is the right word is an unimportant matter of terminology. What counts is the substantive result. Under the old strict differentiation between law and equity, perhaps the plaintiff would have been required to file a bill in equity setting up the circumstances under which, in equity and good conscience, the defendant should be precluded from insisting upon the bar of the statute and asking for an injunction against the pleading of such defense in the pending law action. . .. But the Massachusetts decisions have sanctioned in the action at law what is in effect an equitable replication to the plea in bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.