Stewart v. M.D.F., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2020
14 federal appellate ·
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 Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky · Ames v. Sundance State Bank · Bachtel v. United States · Surety Insurance v. Williams · Moss v. National Super Markets, Inc.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, an evidentiary hearing should be held when there is a substantial factual dispute over the existence or terms of a settlement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the unseemliness of holding, in effect, a mini-trial to resolve a dispute between attorneys arising from their oral settlement talks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the parties' counsel [are] the sole witnesses to their own conversations,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.