Cabral v. Arruda’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2022
1 district · 16 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Forster v. Manchester · Compagnie Francaise d'Assurance Pour le Commerce Exterieur v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Jenkins v. Rainner · Fireman's Fund Insurance v. McAlpine
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possible purposes of surveillance photographs may be to aid an attorney in understanding the adversary’s injury because of a possible lawsuit, to impeach the plaintiffs version of his or her injuries at trial, or to offer the surveillance photographs as substantive evidence. In all three instances, surveillance photographs are made precisely in anticipation of litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] party shall not require a deponent to produce or submit for inspection any writing obtained or prepared by the adverse party, his attorney ... in anticipation of litigation... unless ... a denial of production will result in an injustice or undue hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.