J. Kahn & Co. v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 111 · 1949
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Mid-South Towing Co. v. Har-Win, Inc. (1984), Cia Anon Venezolana De Navegacion v. Harris (1967)
15 federal appellate · 6 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 Williams v. First National Bank · Hennessy v. Bacon · Gilliam v. Alford · Camoron v. Thurmond · Ferguson-McKinney Dry Goods Co. v. Garrett
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the parties, acting in good faith, settle a controversy, the courts will enforce the compromise without regard to what the result might, or would have been, had the parties chosen to litigate rather than settle.”
6 later decisions 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.