Fischbach & Moore, Inc. v. Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 194 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State Farm Life Insurance v. Gutterman (1990), United States v. Bloom (1997)
5 federal appellate · 1 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 California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Fontenot v. Upjohn Co. · Charbonnages De France v. Smith · Hern Iron Works, Inc. v. Donovan · Galindo v. Precision American Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an absolute requisite to the formation of a contract of accord and satisfaction.”
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.