Benedict v. Seiberling’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.2d 841 · 1927
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1975
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Gilbert v. David · Barry v. Edmunds · Morris v. Gilmer · Wetmore v. Rymer
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Collusion in the sense of fraud does not necessarily exist even if the plaintiff’s justiciable interest was manipulated into existence and action thereon incited by a defendant or parties interested in plaintiff’s success, provided the right to sue actually existed at the time of suit. [Citations omitted.] Nor even if action was arranged by parties between whom a justiciable controversy existed.” Id. at 853 .”
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.