Banque de Depots v. National Bank of Detroit’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 753 · 1974
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Lilley v. BTM Corp. (1992), Grover v. Eli Lilly & Co. (1994)
10 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 Foman v. Davis · Willard Dairy Corp. v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Willard Dairy Corp. v. National Dairy Products Corp. · Earl E. Komie v. Buehler Corporation, an Indiana Corporation, Buehler Corporation and James Bechtel · Joseph R. Armstrong, Sr. v. The Frostie Company, a New Jersey Corporation
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Amendments. A party may amend his pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served or, if the pleading is one to which no responsive pleading is permitted and the action has not been placed upon the trial calendar, he may so amend it at any time within 20 days after it is served. Otherwise a party may amend his pleading only by leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party; and leave shall be freely given when justice so requires ....”
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.