Christenson v. Diversified Builders Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.2d 992 · 1964
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Frates (1990), Rosen v. Dick (1980)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Aetna Ins Co Kennedy Bogash Springfield Fire Marine Ins Co v. Same Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co Limited · Simler v. Conner · City of Morgantown v. Royal Insurance · Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak · United States v. Moore
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Right Preserved. The right of trial by jury as declared by the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution or as given by a statute of the United States shall be preserved to the parties inviolate. (b) Demand. Any party may demand a trial by jury of any issue triable of right by a jury by serving upon the other parties a demand therefor in writing at any time after the commencement of the action and not later than 10 days after the service of the last pleading directed to such issue. Such demand may be indorsed upon a pleading of the party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Aetna Insurance Co. v. Kennedy, 301 U.S. 389 , 393, 57 S.Ct. 809, 811, 81 L.Ed. 1177 (1937). 30”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he significant point in this case is that two separate and independent causes of action are asserted by Christenson--one by way of counterclaim against Diversified for breach of the subcontract and one against the Sureties on their bond.”
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.