Compton v. Atwell’s Empirical Analysis
207 F.2d 139 · 1953
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2009
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Peugh v. Davis · Titus v. Wallick · Murray v. Gadsden · Heiskell v. Mozie · Brick v. Brick
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is much controversy in the various states respecting that almost universal code provision, that a suit must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he parol evidence rule does not forbid inquiry into the object of the parties in executing and receiving a written instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether an assignee for collection only is the real party in interest ... has produced a variance of judicial opinion”
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.