Competex Sa v. Labow’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 333 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably In re Oil Spill by the Amoco Cadiz off the Coast of France on March 16, 1978 (1992), 772 F. Supp. 1380 - In Re Eastern & Southern Districts Asbestos Litigation (1991)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · United States 77-1359 v. Kimbell Foods Inc · Hilton v. Guyot · Medlin v. Mann
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the [foreign] judgment is entitled to enforcement, a state court applying New York’s breach-day rule would enter judgment ... in accordance with the conversion rate prevailing on the date the [foreign] judgment debt became due. The asserted purpose of this rule is to assure that plaintiff will be made whole by protecting him against fluctuation in relative currency values.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n applying the breach-day rule, Judge Werker reasoned that [plaintiff’s] American claim was based on the [foreign] judgment rather than on the underlying contract. [Plaintiff’s] American claim had therefore accrued upon the date of entry of the English judgment, and Judge Werker applied the conversion rate prevailing on that date....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he money of account of the United States shall be expressed in dollars ... and all proceedings in the courts shall be kept and had in conformity to this regulation.”
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.