Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Meiboom v. Watson (2000), Higazy v. Templeton (2007)
1 federal appellate · 3 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 BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · Klapprott v. United States · Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. · Mississippi v. Turner
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fair inference, based on previous conduct, conduct during the settlement, and subsequent conduct, that Terry Lundell induced the settlement agreement knowing he would never pay any amount. Terry Lundell also gave worthless property as security and false assurances. He has repeatedly attempted to avoid and to delay his obligations in detriment to the rights of the Watkins.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is dependent on the particular facts of the case in question.”
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.