Apponi v. Sunshine Biscuits, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 643 · 1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2015
8 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1053 (§ 203 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Alexander v. Buckeye Pipe Line Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Daniel · Malone v. White Motor Corp. · Peterson v. Teodosio · Head v. New Mexico Board of Examiners in Optometry
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think that the allegations made in [plaintiffs’] affidavits present triable issues of fact. We rely on two related doctrines, waiver and estoppel. It is well settled that a party may voluntarily relinquish a known right through words or by conduct____ It is similarly settled that a party whose conduct misleads another is barred, or estopped from asserting legal rights that it otherwise could assert____ If company representatives did make the statements they were alleged to have made during the labor negotiations, then the company shall be precluded from arguing that it is not liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Equitable estoppel precludes a party from asserting certain facts where the party, by his conduct, has induced another to change his position in good faith reliance upon that conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Nikokyrakis“'it is the province of the jury to ascertain and determine the intent and meaning of the contracting parties in the use of uncertain or ambiguous language'”
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.