Prince v. Bensinger’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2016
2 federal appellate · 8 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 United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · 283 F. Supp. 643 - Escott v. BarChris Construction Corporation · Rome v. Archer · 43 Del. Ch. 252 - Chrysler Corporation v. Dann · Porges v. Vadsco Sales Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court’s responsibility at this juncture is to determine whether or not the proposed settlement terms are fair, reasonable and adequate, a settlement hearing not being in any sense a rehearsal of a trial ... In other words, the question now for decision is whether or not the terms of the settlement are fair and reasonable when weighed against the probability of recovery at trial on the asserted claims ... In making this evaluation, the function of the Court is merely to determine such probability and to' go no further.”
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.