Raymond Spector, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant v. Milton E. Mermelstein, Defendant-Appellant-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 474 · 1973
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp. (1988), Mallis v. Bankers Trust Co. (1983)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · McAllister v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · In Re Disbarment of Isserman
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be recovered upon a sum awarded because of a breach of performance of a contract, or because of an act or omission depriving or otherwise interfering with title to, or possession or enjoyment of, property, except that in an action of an equitable nature, interest and the rate and date from which it shall be computed shall be in the court’s discretion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the equity clause [of § 5001] should not become a source of sterile controversy over the classification of causes of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he policy of ... section [5001] is to facilitate the award of interest ...,'”
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.