Larchmont Engineering, Inc. v. Toggenburg Ski Center, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
444 F.2d 490 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2013
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Farmer v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Smoot v. Fox · Union Nat. Bank of Youngstown v. Superior Steel Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislative history of § 285 indicates that Congress intended, even after trial, that it be used sparingly, . . . since it represents a departure from the usual rule that counsel fees are not awardable to the prevailing party in an action at law, . . . and the broad policy against allowing costs to be erected as an undue barrier to litigation. Larchmont Engineering, supra, at 491.”
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.