Engine Specialties, Inc. v. Bombardier Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
454 F.2d 527 · 1972
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board (1983), Wells Fargo & Co. v. Wells Fargo Express Co. (1977)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Ruiz v. District of Columbia Court of General Sessions · Hamilton Watch Co. v. Benrus Watch Co. · Gardner v. California · Semmes Motors, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“causing tortious injury in this commonwealth.”
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.