Brittain v. Stroh Brewery Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Government of the Virgin Islands v. Knight (1993), Resolution Trust Corporation v. North Bridge Associates Inc (1994)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard · White v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad · In Re Adele Halkin et Als · 428 F. Supp. 200 - Reliance Insurance v. Barron's · Sl Wang v. Hsu
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must make a particular request and a specific demonstration of facts in support of the request as opposed to conclusory or speculative statements about the need for a protective order and the harm which would be suffered without one”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Upon motion by a party or by the person from whom discovery is sought, and for good cause shown, the court in which the action is pending or alternatively, on matters relating to a deposition, the court in the district where the deposition is to be taken may make any order which justice requires to protect a party or person from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frideres v. Schiltz“Even though the express language of Rule 26(c) does not set out time limits within which a motion for a protective order must be made, there is an implicit requirement that the motion must be timely....”
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.