Marek v. Chesny’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
624 federal appellate · 196 district · 248 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,896 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Farrar v. Hobby (1992), Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991)
624 federal appellate · 196 district · 248 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedChesny v. Marek (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 303 · 12 U.S.C. § 1464 (Consumer Home Mortgage Assistance Act of 1974) · 12 U.S.C. § 1786 · 12 U.S.C. § 1818 · 12 U.S.C. § 1975 · 12 U.S.C. § 2607 · 12 U.S.C. § 3417 · 15 U.S.C. § 1117 (§ 35 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act))
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Hanna v. Plumer · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Cited together with Hensley v. Eckerhart · Delta Air Lines, Inc. v. August · Farrar v. Hobby · Blum v. Stenson · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society
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 1,896 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At any time more than 10 days before the trial begins, a party defending against a claim may serve upon the adverse party an offer to allow judgment to be taken against the defending party for the money or property or to the effect specified in the offer, with costs then accrued.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If defendants are not allowed to make lump-sum offers that would, if accepted, represent their total liability, they would understandably be reluctant to make settlement offers.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, absent congressional expressions to the contrary, where the underlying statute defines”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.