In re Prudence Co.’s Empirical Analysis
98 F.2d 559 · 1938
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 1988 · most notably West Virginia v. Chas. Pfizer & Co. (1971), Anaconda-Ericsson Inc. v. Hessen (1985)
26 federal appellate · 4 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 In re Riggi Bros. · Pullman Couch Co. v. Eshelman · In re Westover, Inc. · Petition of Stuart · Bonded Mortgage Co. of Baltimore v. Commissioner
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the approval of a compromise is a discretionary order which can be reversed only upon a clear showing of an abuse of discretion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Newman v. Stein
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.