Young v. Katz’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.2d 431 · 1971
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation (1974), Grunin v. International House of Pancakes (1975)
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 West Virginia v. Chas. Pfizer & Co. · Cohen v. Young · Masterson v. Pergament · In re Prudence Co.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The very purpose of compromise is to avoid the delay and expense of ... a trial.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not necessary in order to determine whether an agreement of settlement and compromise shall be approved that the court try the case which is before it for settlement.... Such procedure would emasculate the very purpose for which settlements are made. The court is only called upon to consider and weigh the nature of the claim, the possible defenses, the situation of the parties, and the exercise of business judgment in determining whether the proposed settlement is reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be expected to balance the scales with the nicety of an apothecary. The very object of compromise ‘is to avoid the determination of sharply contested and dubious issues.’”
2 later decisions 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.