Stoner v. Terranella’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.2d 89 · 1967
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Mercantile Trust Company National Association v. Inland Marine Products Corporation, Andstoller Fisheries, Inc. v. Gulf Tex Brokerage, Inc. (1976), A. J. Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. United States District Court for the Central District of California (1974)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Hanna v. Plumer · National Equipment Rental, Ltd. v. A. L. Fowler, D. O. Thomas, and E. O. Thomas, Individually and Doing Business as Fowler Poultry & Egg Co. · Smith Contracting Corp. v. Trojan Const. Co. · Hugh A. Day, III v. Providence Hospital, Incorporated, Hugh A. Day, III v. Dr. Asam Dani
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he strong liberal amendment policy expressed in Rule 15 ... indicate[s] that an omitted counterclaim should relate back provided it arose from the same conduct, transaction, or occurrence set forth in the original pleading.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a pleader fails to set up a counterclaim through oversight, inadvertence, or excusable neglect, or when justice requires, he may by leave of court set up the counterclaim by amendment.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Amendments. A party may amend his pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served or, if the pleading is one to which no responsive pleading is permitted and the action has not been placed upon the trial calendar, he may so amend it at any time within 20 days after it is served. Otherwise a party may amend his pleading only by leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party; and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires. A party shall plead in response to an amended pleading within the time remaining for response to the original pleading or within 10 days after service of the amended pleading, which ever period may be the longer, unless the court otherwise orders.”
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.