Steinbach v. Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 843 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Grace v. Uscar (2008), Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers & Warehouse Workers Union Pension Fund v. Tasemkin, Inc. (1995)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 202 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Livingston · National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc. · Golden State Bottling Company Inc v. National Labor Relations Board · Howard Johnson Company Inc v. Detroit Local Joint Executive Board Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union · Jesinger v. Nevada Federal Credit Union
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Imposing liability on a successor when a predecessor could have provided no relief whatsoever is likely to severely inhibit the reorganization or transfer of assets of a failing business.... [T]hat company will have difficulty selling its assets or business for a [decent] price because successors will be unwilling to assume a business involved in substan tial time-consuming and expensive litigation when the assets themselves lack substantial value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in light of the difficulty of the successorship question, the myriad factual circumstances and legal contexts in which it can arise, and the absence of congressional guidance as to its resolution, emphasis on the facts of each case as it arises is especially appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attempted purchase of a company in distress.”
2 later decisions 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.