Desco Products Caribbean, Inc. v. Government of Virgin Islands’s Empirical Analysis
511 F.2d 1157 · 1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2015
5 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Port Construction Co. v. Government of the Virgin Islands · King Christian Enterprises, Inc. v. Government of the Virgin Islands · 26 App. D.C. 110 - Wilson v. District of Columbia
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fixed popular meaning of building contractor is 'one who contracts with the owner to become his builder, to erect his structure according to certain plans and for a certain compensation.'”
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.