Centex Construction Co. v. James’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.2d 921 · 1967
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2018
7 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on United States v. Spearin · Hollerbach v. United States · United States v. Utah, Nevada & California Stage Co. · Salt Lake City v. Smith · Fullerton v. Storthz
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The pivotal issue surrounds appellee’s assumption that they [the curb line and the ground line] were the same: Was it his negligence or was he reasonably justified in light of appellant’s conduct to make his bid accordingly?””
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.