Benedict v. Lebowitz’s Empirical Analysis
346 F.2d 120 · 1965
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Franklin Credit Management Corp. v. Nicholas (2002), Plemens v. Diddeglaser, Inc. (1966)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 In re Excel Stores, Inc.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. To simplify, clarify and modernize the law governing commercial transactions. 19 2. To permit the continued expansion of commercial practices through custom, usage and agreement of the parties. 20 3. To make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . includ(ing) any symbol executed or adopted by a party with present intention to authenticate a writing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A financing statement substantially complying with the requirements of this section is effective even though it contains minor errors which are not seriously misleading.””
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.