Park-In-Theatres, Inc. v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
190 F.2d 137 · 1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 1749 - Octane Fitness, LLC v. ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. (2014), Vermont Structural Slate Co. v. Tatko Bros. Slate Co. (1956)
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp. · Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp. · Steigleder v. Eberhard Faber Pencil Co. · Associated Plastics Companies, Inc. v. Gits Molding Corp. · Loew's Drive-in Theatres, Inc. v. Park-in Theatres, Inc.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he exercise of discretion in favor of such an allowance should be bottomed upon a finding of unfairness or bad faith in the conduct of the losing party, or some other inequitable consideration of similar force, which makes it grossly unjust that the winner of the particular law suit be left to bear the burden of his own counsel fees which prevailing litigants normally bear.”
8 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.