Farber v. Wards Co.’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 684 · 1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 1141 · 11 U.S.C. § 362 · 11 U.S.C. § 365 · 11 U.S.C. § 502
Relies on S & W Holding Company v. Julius Kuriansky, Trustee, in the Matter of W. L. Boffa, Inc., Bankrupt · Diversified Services, Inc. v. Harralson · 120 Wall Associates v. Schilling · In Re North Atlantic & Gulf Steamship Company · Field v. Herrell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 15(c) governs the `relation back' of amended pleadings only for the purpose of the statute of limitations, which is simply not implicated in this case.”
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.