Nigro v. Conti’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Commonwealth v. DeCotis (1974), Zimmerman v. Bogoff (1988)
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 23 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 Rosenfield v. United States Trust Co. · Glackin v. Bennett · Durkin v. Cobleigh · Duggan v. Matthew Cummings Co. · Pollak v. Brush Electric Ass'n of St. Louis
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inclusion of a provision for the later drawing up of a formal memorial of the terms of an agreement, written or oral, is not necessarily inconsistent with an intent to be presently bound to the agreement in its original informal state.”
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.