In the Matter of American Magnesium Company, Debtor. Ozark-Mahoning Company v. American Magnesium Company, Debtor’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 147 · 1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably Hassett v. Revlon, Inc. (In Re O. P. M. Leasing Services, Inc.) (1982), Jenson v. Continental Financial Corp. (1979)
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Fletcher v. Peck · Farrington v. Tennessee · Childress v. Hinch · Swiss-American Importing Co. v. Variety Food Products 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a contract between two or more parties, and is either executory or executed. An executory contract is one in which a party binds himself to do or not to do, a particular thing; ... A contract executed, as well as one which is executory contains obligation binding on the parties.”
7 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.