John Patterson v. Roy Stovall, William P. Corkill, Objectors-Appellants’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 108 · 1976
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Cotton v. Hinton (1977), General Motors Corporation Engine Interchange Litigation Oswald v. General Motors Corporation (1979)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Snyder v. Harris · City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corporation, Manhattan-Ward, Incorporated v. Grinnell Corporation, 1225 Vine Street Building, Inc. v. Grinnell Corporation · State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Tashire · West Virginia v. Chas. Pfizer & 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court has held that a district court in reviewing a settlement agreement 'should not attempt to decide the merits of the controversy ... [because] [a]ny virtue which may reside in a compromise is based upon doing away with the effect of such a decision.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In the Matter of Energy Cooperative, Inc., Debtor. Appeals of Koch Refining Co., Koch Fuels, Inc., Wood River Oil & Refining Co., Conoco Inc., Mobil Oil Corporation, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Gulf Oil Corporation, Socap International, Ltd., U.S.A. Rookwood, Inc., Kerr-Mcgee Refining Corp., Triangle Refineries, Peerless Distributing, Valero Refining F/k/a Saber Refining, Union Oil Company of Calif., Tenneco Oil Company, Oils, Inc., Bell Fuels, Inc., Moore McCormack Enron Oil Trading & Transportation Company, and Societe Nationale Pour La Recherche, La Production, Le Transport, La Transformation Commercialisation Des Hydrocarbures ("Sonatrach"), 1 · Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. v. Village of Arlington Heights“the very uncertainties of outcome in litigation, as well as the avoidance of wasteful litigation and expense . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[p]arties would be hesitant to explore the likelihood of settlement apprehensive as they would then be that the application for approval would necessarily result in a judicial determination that there was no escape from liability or no hope of recovery and thus no basis for a compromise."”
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.