Fouke v. Schenewerk’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 234 · 1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2008
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Calcote v. Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co. · Jennings v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no reason in this case for a court of equity to strain hard to find a way to adjudicate the merits of this controversy in the absence of interested parties whose presence was readily obtainable. . . . The decision of this controversy is governed by the local law of Texas; and the courts of Texas are open to the plaintiffs and fully competent to acquire jurisdiction in rem if not in personam. 197 F.2d at 236 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Carman““Estoppel applies only to those in privity. Donor and donee are in privity of estate, as are a lessor and lessee; and heir is in privity with his ancestor ; an executor is in privity with his testator; a trustee is in privity with his trustor ; * *”
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.