Pfeifle v. Tanabe’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably WFND, LLC v. Fargo Marc, LLC (2007), ATC Partnership v. Town of Windham (2004)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 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 Dangerfield v. Markel · Hofmann v. Stoller · Wachter v. Gratech Co., Ltd. · R & D AMUSEMENT CORP. v. Christianson · Hanson v. Cincinnati Life Insurance Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A waiver occurs when a person voluntarily and intentionally relinquishes a known right or privilege.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous under N.D.R.Civ.P. 52(a) if it is not supported by any evidence, if, although there is some evidence to support the finding, a reviewing court is left with a definite and firm conviction a mistake has been made, or if the finding is induced by an erroneous conception of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gannaway v. Torres“the parties' intent is the preeminent factor in analyzing whether an item is a trade fixture”
1 later decision 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.