Polk v. Good’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Epstein (1996), Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 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 Aronson v. Lewis · Guth v. Loft, Inc. · Smith v. Van Gorkom · Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co. · Levitt v. Bouvier
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Rome , the [C]ourt’s function is to consider the nature of the [plaintiffs] claim, the possible defenses thereto, the legal and factual circumstances of the case, and then to apply its own business judgment in deciding whether the settlement is reasonable in light of these factors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the probable validity of the claims; (2) the apparent difficulty of enforcing the claims through the Courts; (3) the collecti-bility of any judgment; (4) the delay, expense and trouble of litigation; (5) the amount of the compromise as compared with the amount and collectibility of the judgment, and (6) the views of the parties involved, pro and con.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a settlement has been approved as fair and reasonable we must find the evidence so strongly to the contrary as to amount to an abuse of discretion.”
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.