Feldman v. Pennroad Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 773 · 1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States · Tait v. Western Maryland Railway Co. · Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. v. Steel & Tube Co. of America · Overfield v. Pennroad Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of bad faith, the Delaware law affords her no right to judicial interference with the settlement merely because the amount agreed upon in settlement is deemed by her to be inadequate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“determination of these basic facts by the Court of Chancery is, therefore, now conclusive between the plaintiff and Pennroad and she is estopped from further disputing them in the present case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“after a full hearing that the Pennroad directors acted in good faith in agreeing to the settlement,”
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.