Brendle v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1966
1 federal appellate ·
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 Landis v. North American Co. · Enelow v. New York Life Insurance · Atlas Life Ins Co v. W I Southern · Kansas City Southern Ry Co v. United States · Jefferson Standard Life Ins. v. Keeton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants. How this can best be done calls for the exercise of judgment, which must weigh competing interests and maintain an even balance. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. United States, 282 U.S. 760, 763 , 51 S.Ct. 304, 305, 306 , 75 L.Ed. 684 ; Enelow v. New York Life Ins. Co., 293 U.S. 379, 382 , 55 S.Ct. 310, 311 , 79 L.Ed. 440 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * If the motion be for a stay the court must consider whether the parties and the subject matter in the action to be stayed are em braced within the action which is to be given right of way; whether the dominant action is being prosecuted with skill, zeal and integrity; whether there is a risk of collusion; if the dominant action is in another forum, whether it affords an adequate remedy. * * *" (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“be compelled to stand aside while a litigant in another settles the rule of law that will define the rights of both”
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.