Kiewit Eastern Co. v. L & R Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 1194 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Max's Seafood Cafe Lou-Ann Inc v. Quinteros (1999), Pittston Company Ultramar America Limited v. Allianz Insurance Company Insco Irb Siat (1997)
18 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Baumgart v. Fairchild Aircraft Corp. · In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · Kremer v. Grant · Steuart v. McChesney
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts often take a dim view of issues raised for the first time in post-judgment motions,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although lower state court decisions are not controlling on an issue on which the highest court of the state has spoken, federal courts must attribute significant weight to these decisions in the absence of any indication that the highest state court would rule otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hilfirty v. Shipman
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.