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55 F.3d 1016 · 1995

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2018

7 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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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 American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Granito v. United States · Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley · James N. And Betty G. Bowen v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for First Republicbank--El Paso

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In determining whether the forfeiture is `disproportionate,' a court must weigh the extent of the forfeiture by the obligee against the importance to the obligor of the risk from which he sought to be protected and the degree to which that protection will be lost if the non-occurrence of the condition is excused to the extent required to prevent forfeiture.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Capistrant v. Lifetouch Nat'l Sch. Studios, Inc. · 913 So. 2d 43 - Jenkins v. Eckerd Corp.
  2. “`(a) will involve extreme forfeiture or penalty, and (b) its existence or occurrence forms no essential part of the exchange for the promisor's performance.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Conn Credit I, L.P. v. TF Loanco III, L.L.C. · 913 So. 2d 43 - Jenkins v. Eckerd Corp.

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.