Edwards v. Born, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2011
2 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on United States v. Beebe · Hallock v. State · Aro Corp. v. Allied Witan Co. · D. H. Overmyer Co. v. Loflin · James Thomas Iii v. Colorado Trust Deed Funds, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n agreement to settle a law suit, voluntarily entered into, is binding upon the parties whether or not made in the presence of the court, and even in the absence of a writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dubery v. Dubery“I accept the offer. I am authorized to accept it on behalf of the plaintiffs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.