American Hangar, Inc. v. Basic Line, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Nutmeg Insurance v. Atwell, Vogel & Sterling (1988), Riddell Sports Inc. v. Brooks (1994)
1 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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 Liew v. Breen · International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. · Hulvat v. Royal Indemnity 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rules should deter the abuse implicit in carrying or forcing a discovery dispute to court when no genuine issue exists [and further points out that] the potential or actual imposition of expenses is virtually the sole formal sanction in the rules to deter a party from pressing to a court hearing frivolous requests for or objections to discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cabana v. Forcier“Evidence objected to shall be taken subject to objection. (Emphasis supplied).”
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.