Southmark Corp. v. Cagan’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 416 · 1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably In the Matter Of: Synthroid Marketing Litigation (2001), Shea v. Angulo (1994)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 In re Disbarment of Sabiston · United States v. Boula · Keith v. Daley · Preston v. Thompson · Meridian Homes Corp. v. Nicholas W. Prassas & Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) timely application; (2) an interest relating to the subject matter of the action; (3) potential impairment, as a practical matter, of that interest by the disposition of the action; and (4) lack of adequate representation of the interest by the existing parties to the action.”
5 later decisions 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.