Gramatan-sullivan, Inc. v. Koslow’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 523 · 1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1990
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Raymond Concrete Pile Co. v. Federation Bank & Trust Co. · Crandall v. Pennsylvania · Wickes Boiler Co. v. Godfrey-Keeler Co. · Wickes Boiler Co. v. Godfrey-Keeler Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have before us for construction important New York remedial legislation for the protection of laborers and materi-almen on building jobs. The evil aimed at is that of ‘pyramiding,’ whereby a contractor parlays his speculations, using one undertaking as the basis of credit expansion for another, with lenders and security holders pretty well protected until, on ultimate disaster, those contributing labor or materials to a particular job are left holding an empty bag.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Such trust may be enforced by civil action maintained as provided in article three-a of this chapter by any person entitled to share in the fund, whether or not he shall have filed, or had the right to file, a notice of lien or shall have recovered a judgment for a claim arising out of the improvement. For the purpose of a civil action only, the trust funds shall include the right of action upon an obligation for moneys due or to become due to a contractor ’ ’.”
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.