Garnac Grain Co., Inc. v. Blackley’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Christophersen v. Allied-Signal Corp. (1991), Bank of Illinois v. Allied Signal Safety Restraint Systems (1996)
24 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Camfield Tires, Inc. v. Michelin Tire Corp. · Gustafson v. Benda · Adelman-Tremblay v. Jewel Companies, Inc. · Lippard v. Houdaille Industries, 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but they are persuasive authority, and we must follow them when they are the best evidence”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insurance against liability,” as Peat, Marwick argues, the bond is insurance. Consequently, if the jury leams of the fidelity bond, it might improperly reduce Gamac’s damages should Gamac prevail. This is the kind of prejudice Rule 411 was intended to eliminate. Id. This Court submits that a finding that the fidelity bond is not “insurance against liability”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of summary judgment motions ... is served by a rule which prevents a party from creating issues of credibility by allowing one of its witnesses to contradict his own prior testimony.”
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.