215 U.S. App. D.C. 381 - Rainbolt v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2006
3 federal appellate · 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 White v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad · Warren v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America · Luick v. Graybar Electric Co. · Harris v. Wagshal · Westmoreland v. Triumph Motorcycle Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Obviously the party should not wait until trial to seek relief from an admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rainbolt v. Johnson“maliciously, fraudulently and with willful disregard of the plaintiff's rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rainbolt v. Johnson
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.