Wilcox v. Commerce Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Katz v. Carte Blanche Corp. (1974), La Mar v. H & B Novelty & Loan Co. (1973)
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 15 U.S.C. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act)
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Esplin v. Hirschi · City of New York v. International Pipe & Ceramics Corp. · 329 F. Supp. 270 - Ratner v. Chemical Bank New York Trust Company · Ratner v. Chemical Bank New York Trust 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Rule-quite deliberately, I think-tends to ask more questions than it answers. It is neither a set of prescriptions nor a blue print. It is, rather, a broad outline of general policies and directions. As the commentators have said, it confides to the district judges a broad range of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication of the controversy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“four non-exhaustive considerations found in subdivision (b)(3) of the Rule itself.”
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.