Undersea Engineering & Construction Co. v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 543 · 1970
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably 97 Ill. App. 3d 809 - Alexander v. Standard Oil Co. (1981), Brewer v. The School Board Of The City Of Norfolk, Virginia (1972)
12 federal appellate · 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 United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Berger v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · Suckow Borax Mines Consolidated, Inc. v. Borax Consolidated, Ltd. · Wolfson v. Palmieri
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to substantiate the allegation of economic duress or business compulsion, the plaintiff must go beyond the mere showing of reluctance to accept and of financial embarrassment. There must be a showing of acts on the part of the defendant which produced these two factors. The assertion of duress must be proven by evidence that the duress resulted from defendant’s wrongful and oppressive conduct and not by the plaintiff’s necessities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The releases are so unambiguous that it is not necessary for this court to resort to any extrinsic evidence in order to determine the scope of [this release]. On the face of the [release], therefore, Undersea has no legal basis for the suit it has filed. 429 F.2d at 549 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the absence of legislation specifically permitting the same [allowing a sub-subcontractor to sue a prime contractor without a contractual relationship]”
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.