Lindy v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1991
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1442
Relies on Willingham v. Morgan · Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America v. Fairlawn Meats, Inc. · Poss v. Lieberman · State of New Jersey v. Moriarity · State of North Carolina v. Gordon S. Carr
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(had) carefully reviewed the mortgage loan instruments and (found) no error in the district court's careful construction of them and in its conclusion that 'the plaintiff is precluded from asserting a valid claim to the (funds).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank Hernandez v. Home Savings Association of Dallas County, and Third-Party v. Moon Landrieu, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party Frank Hernandez v. Home Savings Association of Dallas County, and Third-Party v. Moon Landrieu, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party B. B. Adams General Contractor, Etc. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Modern American Mortgage and James A. Pate · Hernandez v. Home Savings Ass'n“purpose for which the fund was created never became operative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank Hernandez v. Home Savings Association of Dallas County, and Third-Party v. Moon Landrieu, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party Frank Hernandez v. Home Savings Association of Dallas County, and Third-Party v. Moon Landrieu, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party B. B. Adams General Contractor, Etc. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Modern American Mortgage and James A. Pate · Hernandez v. Home Savings Ass'n“shall be held for the account of the mortgagor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frank Hernandez v. Home Savings Association of Dallas County, and Third-Party v. Moon Landrieu, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party Frank Hernandez v. Home Savings Association of Dallas County, and Third-Party v. Moon Landrieu, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Third-Party B. B. Adams General Contractor, Etc. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Modern American Mortgage and James A. Pate · Hernandez v. Home Savings Ass'n
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.