Jeff D’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Botefur v. City of Eagle Point (1993), Findley v. Falise (1995)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Hanrahan v. Hampton · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · Garber v. United States · ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts are not permitted to modify settlement terms or in any manner to rewrite agreements reached by parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enforceability is governed by familiar principles of contract law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court's power to approve or reject settlements does not permit it to modify the terms of a negotiated settlement.”
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.