C’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2007
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Drane, Ind. Extr. v. Jefferson Std. Life Ins. Co. · Greer v. Franklin Life Insurance · Employers Casualty Co. v. County of Rockwall · Irving Lumber Company v. Alltex Mortgage Company · Givens v. Girard Life Insurance Company of America
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The very purpose of interpleader is to allow an innocent stakeholder facing rival claims to let the courts decide who is entitled to the fund and thus avoid the peril of acting as judge and jury itself. To hold that a stakeholder in such a case must research the law and the facts and at its peril decide itself which claim is valid, rather than paying the fund into the court for a judicial determination thereof, would be to compel the very thing interpleader was designed to avoid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.