Eden v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.2d 8 · 1930
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2021
11 federal appellate · 6 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 Martin v. New York Life Insurance · Watson v. . Gugino · Milliken v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Green v. Victor Talking Mach. Co. · Clark v. Sidway
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because they performed their promises by organizing the corporation, taking employment and making an investment in it, in reliance upon the now broken promise of the defendant to give to the business both financial and personal aid, they claimed to have been damaged. For such damage as they can prove they may recover, regardless of any cause of action the corporation may have against the defendant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.