Percodani v. Riker-Maxson Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation (1974), Grunin v. International House of Pancakes (1975)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 78A (§ 1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on Norman v. McKee · Masterson v. Pergament · Glicken v. Bradford · 290 F. Supp. 29 - Norman v. McKee · Schleiff v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the release of noncontributing defendants through a settlement agreement is no reason for disapproving the compromise . . .” (citing Glicken v. Bradford, 35 F.R.D. 144 (S.D.N.Y.1964)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In examining a proposed compromise for approval or disapproval * * * the court does not try the case. The very purpose of compromise is to avoid the delay and expense of such a trial.”
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.