Ingram v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.2d 259 · 1930
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2014
10 federal appellate · 4 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 Radich v. Hutchins · Lonergan v. Buford · William Wheeler v. Hugh Smith · Adams v. Cowen · Stenton v. . Jerome
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To constitute the coercion or duress which will be regarded as sufficient to make a payment involuntary ... there must be some actual or threatened exercise of power possessed, or believed to be possessed, by the party exacting or receiving the payment over the person or property of another, from which the latter has no other means of immediate relief than by making the payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“equity may disregard its effect as a release, if the dismissal was procured by the trustee”
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.