Polycast Technology Corp. v. Uniroyal, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 811 F. Supp. 651 - Rentclub, Inc. v. Transamerica Rental Finance Corp. (1992), 745 F. Supp. 1037 - Public Service Electric & Gas Co. v. Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services (1990)
7 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Vermont v. Cox · In Re Robert J Snyder · Jones v. United States · Armstrong v. McAlpin · Bulow Auersperg v. Bulow
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the case of an organization, this Rule prohibits communications by a lawyer for one party concerning the matter in representation with persons having a managerial responsibility on behalf of the organization, and with any other person whose act or omission in connection with that matter may be imputed to the organization for purposes of civil or criminal liability or whose statement may constitute an admission on the part of the organization.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A typical example would be a truck driver whose involvement in an accident led to a lawsuit against his employer. The truck driver is plainly not in the control group [high level employee], yet the company and the company’s lawyer have a strong interest in monitoring what he says to their opponent, because their opponent can use what he says free of the hearsay rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a party the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the other lawyer or is authorized by law to do so.”
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.