Nicholas J. P. Tryforos and Bebe Spanos Ikaris, and Vasillios G. Spanos v. Icarian Development Company, S. A.’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 1258 · 1975
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably First Commodity Traders, Inc. v. Heinold Commodities, Inc. (1985), Felzen v. Andreas (1998)
25 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Hanna v. Plumer · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hall v. Cole
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U.S. 240 , 95 S.Ct. 1612 , 44 L.Ed.2d 141 n.31 (1975), requires us to reject appellees’ position that we should look to federal law as authority for the award. Since this is a diversity case, the question of plaintiffs’ liability for defendants’ fees must be determined by the law of Illinois. Trust Co. of Chicago v. National Surety Corp., 177 F.2d 816, 818 (7th Cir. 1949).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Allegations and denials, made without reasonable cause and found to be untrue, shall subject the party pleading them to the payment of reasonable expenses, actually incurred by the other party by reason of the untrue pleading, together with a reasonable attorney’s fee, to be summarily taxed by the court upon motion made within 30 days of the judgment or dismissal.”
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.