Birnbaum v. Birrell’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1986
6 federal appellate · 1 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 The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan · Cohen v. Young · Masterson v. Pergament · Karasik v. Pacific Eastern Corp. · Ladd v. Brickley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undoubtedly aimed at the unsavory practice of private and collusive settlement of stockholders' suits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mokhiber v. Cohn
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.