Smith v. Massman Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 87 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 The Robert W. Parsons · Producers Drilling Co. v. Gray · The Robert W. Parsons · Hicks v. Ocean Drilling & Exploration Co. · George E. Blanchard, Cross-Appellee v. Engine and Gas Compressor Services, Inc. And Gulf Oil Corporation v. Commercial Union Insurance Company, Intervenor-Appellee, Cross-Appellant
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the purpose of being both a form for concrete in a bridge pier and part of the pier itself,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he transportation of men and material, if any occurred, was incidental.”
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.