Ahern v. Central Pacific Freight Lines’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 47 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated December Does Through IV v. United States (1991), Fondren v. Rd Schmidt Inc (1991)
19 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · Worthy v. McKesson Corp. · United States v. C. McInnes · Speed Shore Corp. v. Denda
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court's finding that [a party] assented to the settlement and intended to be bound by it must be affirmed unless it is clearly erroneous”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“overriding public interest in settling and quieting litigation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[a]ssent to the terms of a settlement agreement can be implied from the circumstances, and conduct inconsistent with a refusal of the terms raises a presumption of assent upon which others may rely.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Angle v. Comm'r
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.