Triple B Corp. v. Brown & Root, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Roth v. Thompson (1992), Mascarenas v. Jaramillo (1991)
26 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 Skyhook Corp. v. Jasper · Latta v. Harvey · Shipman v. MacCo Corporation · Campbell v. Smith · Capo v. Century Life Insurance
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.
““ ‘[n]o contractor shall ... bring or maintain any action in any court of the state for the collection of compensation for the performance of any act for which a license is required by the Construction Industries Licensing Act without alleging and proving that such contractor was a duly licensed contractor at the time the alleged cause of action arose.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We will not recognize an equitable defense of unjust enrichment because the Legislature in [the statute] necessarily authorized the unjust enrichment of the recipients of work performed by unlicensed contractors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the manner in which the details of the work are to be accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madsen v. Scott
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.