Hawthorne v. Eckerson Co.’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.2d 844 · 1935
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Westchester County Park Commission v. United States (1944), American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers v. Showtime/the Movie Channel Inc (1990)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Ferris v. . Sterling · West v. Smith · Tischler v. Steinholtz · Massachusetts Bonding & Ins. v. Norwich Pharmacal Co. · Colburn v. Groton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Settlements have always been looked on with favor, and courts have deemed it against public policy to subject a person who has compromised a claim to the hazard of having a settlement proved in a subsequent lawsuit by another person asserting a cause of action arising out of the same transaction. . . .” Id. at 847 .”
4 later decisions 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.