Sweeney Co. v. Engineers-Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2003
1 district · 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 Walling v. Beverly Enterprises · 431 F. Supp. 1080 - Gross v. Diversified Mortgage Investors · 467 F. Supp. 227 - In Re Commonwealth Oil/Tesoro Petroleum Corp. Securities Litigation · 497 F. Supp. 858 - Picture Lake Campground, Inc. v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · 342 F. Supp. 1282 - Collins v. Rukin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purposes advanced by this requirement are to insure that allegations are specific enough to inform defendant and enable him to prepare an effective response and defense, to eliminate complaints filed in order to find unknown wrongs through discovery, and to protect defendants from unfounded charges that involve moral turpitude.”
1 later decision 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.