Universal Communications Systems, Inc. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2016
10 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 Walsh v. E a Schlecht · United States Glynn v. Capeletti Brothers Inc · Board of Com'rs of Guadalupe County v. State · Fleming v. Phelps-Dodge Corporation
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was nothing in the way of erection or alteration of any University building or structure. The cables were run through existing tunnels, and the cabinets which housed the computer and switching equipment were bolted to the floor of the telecommunication building which was owned by the University. The wires were run through existing conduit which are typically installed at the time a building is constructed. In the few cases where the conduit did not already exist, UCS covered the wire with a plastic molding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.