First Federal State Bank v. Town of Malvern’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2009
2 federal appellate · 2 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 Jacobs v. Northeastern Corp. · National Shawmut Bank v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. · Canter v. Schlager · Finance Co. of America v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · American Bridge Co. v. City of Boston
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 573.15, by the phrase just quoted, refers only to the claims of material-men. The claims of materialmen (as well as laborers) were, of course, the subject with which Sinclair [Refining Co. v. Burch, 235 Iowa 594 , 16 N.W.2d 359 (1944),] dealt. The section simply has no application to a dispute between the town and the contractor over progress payments which are earned before the contractor’s default. Nothing in chapter 573 would apply to this dispute. This conclusion is not surprising, in light of chapter 573’s title: Labor and Material on Public Improvements.”
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.