Batson-Cook Co. v. Industrial Steel Erectors’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.2d 410 · 1958
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably United States v. Seckinger (1970), Gorsalitz v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1970)
53 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 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 Perry v. Payne · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Mostyn v. Delaware · Simms v. Andrews
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]his extraordinary liability on the Indemnitor must be spelled out in unmistakable terms. It cannot come from reading into the general words used the fullest meaning which lexicography would permit...."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while it need not be done in any particular language or form, unless the intention is unequivocally expressed in the plainest of words, the law will consider that the parties did not undertake to indemnify one against the consequences of his own negligence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sustained in connection with or to have arisen out of or resulting from the performance of the work by subcontractor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. White Mountain Construction Co. · Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation v. The Mobile Drilling Barge or Vessel Known as Mr. Charlie Etc., Signal Oil & Gas Company, Third-Party v. Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company, Third-Party Claimant-Appellee, Forestoil Corporation, Third-Party
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.