Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 91,980’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Lorenz v. CSX Corp. (1993), Class
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 11 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
Relies on Port Chester Electrical Construction Corp. v. Atlas · Flores v. United States · Hazzard v. Chase National Bank · Nassau Insurance v. Murray · United States v. Burnett
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nlike the ordinary trustee, who has historic common-law duties imposed beyond those in the trust agreement, an indenture trustee is more like a stakeholder whose duties and obligations are exclusively defined by the terms of the indenture agreement.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere denial of receipt does not rebut [the] presumption”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n our view the provision in the debenture that notice would be given `by mail' was not inherently unfair or unreasonable and it satisfied the debenture holders' reasonable expectations as to the notice they would receive.”
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.