Shirley v. Pothast’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Iowa Fuel & Minerals, Inc. v. Iowa State Board of Regents · Bilodeau v. Oliver Stores, Inc. · Tigges v. City of Amess · Sheer Construction, Inc. v. W. Hodgman & Sons, Inc. · Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Hawkeye State Telephone 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law favors settlement of controversies. A settlement agreement is essentially contractual in nature. The typical settlement resolves uncertain claims and defenses, and the settlement obviates the necessity of further legal proceedings between the settling parties. We have long held that voluntary settlements of legal disputes should be encouraged, with the terms of settlements not inordinately scrutinized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Gribble
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.