Berwald v. Mission Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc. (1975), Cowin v. Bresler (1984)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Frank C. Sparks Co. v. Huber Baking Co. · Hall v. John S. Isaacs & Sons Farms, Inc. · Hall v. John S. Isaacs & Sons Farms, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because it is doing exactly what it was lawfully organized to do,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to wind up a solvent going business is rarely granted,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowin v. Bresler
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.