Bierman v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
246 F.2d 200 · 1957
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Anna Knoll and Rose Keller v. Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc., a Corporation (1966), 407 F. Supp. 164 - American Fidelity Fire Insurance v. Construcciones Werl, Inc. (1975)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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. § 1335
Relies on Hunter v. Federal Life Ins. · John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. v. Kraft · New York Life Insurance Company, a Corporation v. Arthur L. Lee and Florence Grusenmeyer, Formerly Florence Lee · Kahn v. Garvan
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, jurisdiction in interpleader is not dependent upon the merits of the claims of the parties inter-pleaded, and a plaintiff can maintain the action even though he believes that one of the claims is valid and the other, or others, without merit (citing cases).””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]here the plaintiff knows that he can safely pay one party without substantial risk of vexatious demand by a rival claimant interpleader will not lie.””
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.