McGowan v. King, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 745 · 1980
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Bustamante v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1980), Carroll v. Wolpoff & Abramson (1995)
21 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1601 (§ 102 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1604 (§ 105 of the Truth in Lending Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1640 (§ 130 of the Truth in Lending Act)
Relies on Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · United States v. Hougham · Fannie Thomas, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. Myers-Dickson Furniture Company, Defendant-Appellant-Cross · McGowan v. King, Inc. · Davis v. Fletcher
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a generally accepted rule of law that where a judgment is appealed on the ground that the damages awarded are inadequate, acceptance of payment of the amount of the unsatisfactory judgment does not, standing alone, amount to an accord and satisfaction of the entire claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the parties mutually intended a final settlement of all the claims in dispute and a termination of the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a matter for the sound discretion of the trial judge”
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.