Reed v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2021
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Risjord · Cobbledick v. United States · Houltin v. United States · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · David v. Hooker, Ltd.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he reality of the claim which is given up must be measured, not by the state of the law as it is ultimately discovered to be, but by the state of the knowledge of the person who at the time has to judge and make the concession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]orbearance to sue can be good consideration for a promise, regardless of the actual validity of the claim, if the one who forbears has a reasonable and sincere belief in its validity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can be reviewed and corrected when final judgment is entered by including them in the appeal from the final judgment.”
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.