Abbott v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Touche Ross & Co. (1993), Landals v. George A. Rolfes Co. (1990)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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 Cherokee Nation v. United States · SWANSON PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. Cumberland · Mid States Engineering v. Rohde · Beltner v. Carlson · General Motors Acceptance Corporation v. Blanco
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim is liquidated if the evidence furnishes data which, if believed, makes it possible to compute the amount with exactness, without reliance upon opinion or discretion. Examples are claims upon promises to pay a fixed sum, claims for money had and received, claims for money paid out, and claims for goods or services to be paid for at an agreed rate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.