Landa v. Obert’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Carr (1951), Richey v. Brookshire Grocery Co. (1997)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And certainly, if the threat of criminal prosecution does not amount to duress, it is unnecessary to say that the mere threat of a civil suit will not do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Robertson
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.