Justine Realty Company v. American National Can Company’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 1044 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Catlin v. United States · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Commissioner v. Engle · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n essence, we think that Justine sought by its motion to obtain a portion of the contractual benefits in issue, which were part of its substantive claim, and inherent in the merits of the claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not hold that fees provided by the contract and incurred in pre-litigation performance of the contract, and thus part of the substance of the claim (and therefore not 'for the litigation'), can never be compensation for injury and part of the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Sec. 1291 effect of an unresolved issue of attorney's fees for the litigation at hand should not turn upon the characterization of those fees by the statute or decisional law that authorizes them.”
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.