Eddy v. Prudence Bonds Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.2d 157 · 1947
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. (1995), Hol-Gar Manufacturing Corp. v. United States (1965)
53 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 501
Relies on Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. Green · Consolidated Rock Products Co. v. Du Bois · Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Josiah Coder v. William Arts · Hobbs v. McLean
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . appellate courts have untrammelled power to interpret written documents.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e must consider the words [of a contract] themselves for they are always the most important evidence of the parties' intention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the claims of secured creditors by giving them new interests in the corporate property instead of paying them in cash; but it did not affect their right to have the substituted interests computed upon the basis of the”
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.