Shearson/American Express, Inc. v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 301 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Farber v. Massillon Board of Education (1990), United States of America v. Universal Management Services, Inc. (1999)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Smith v. Hudson · Gordon v. United States · Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. v. Storm King Corp. · Birt v. Georgia
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcept as to a party against whom a judgment is entered by default, every final judgment shall grant the relief to which the party in whose favor it is rendered is entitled, even if the party has not demanded such relief in the party's pleadings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such further legal and equitable relief to which Shearson may be entitled”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"While appellant assumed new debt obligations, the value of the mistaken payment has not been lost. We find this case, for analytical purposes, indistinguishable from Rosemeier [supra]."”
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.