Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. . Childs Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 12 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Conference Center Ltd. v. TRC—The Research Corp. (1983), Phillips Petroleum Securities Litigation Ca 85-14 Hudson v. Phillips Petroleum Company Ca 85-45 Hudson (1989)
12 federal appellate · 12 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Friederichsen v. Renard · Terry v. . Munger · Conrow v. . Little · Bedford v. . Terhune · Henry v. . Herrington
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) n estoppel rests upon the word or deed of one party upon which another rightfully relies and so relying changes his position to his injury. When this occurs, it would be inequitable to permit the first to enforce what would have been his rights under other circumstances.”
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.