Fleming v. Phoenix Assur. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
40 F.2d 38 · 1930
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2000
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Brown · Groves v. Sentell · Alexander City Bank v. Home Ins. Co. of New York · Scruggs v. American Cent. Ins. Co. of St. Louis · Cleveland v. Insurance Co. of North America
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A bill in the nature of a bill of interpleader, such as this is, will lie where a party is threatened with a multiplicity of suits and double vexation in tespect of one liability, although-he may at the same time seek to defeat all or part of the claim against himself. Groves v. Sentell, 153 U.S. 465 , 14 S.Ct. 898 , 38 L.Ed. 785 ; Cleveland v. Insurance Co. of North America, 151 Ala. 191 , 44 So. 37 ; Alexander City Bank v. Home Ins. Co., 214 Ala. 544 , 108 So. 369 .””
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.