Caisson Corp. v. County West Building Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2019
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 National Labor Relations Board v. Gamble Enterprises, Inc. · Monticello Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co. · Capital Co. v. Fox · Burak v. Scott · Monticello Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In aid of the judgment or execution, the judgment creditor or his successor in interest when that interest appears of record, may obtain discovery from any person, including the judgment debtor, in the manner provided in these rules or in the manner provided by the practice of the state in which the district court is held.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Under Rule 69(a),] the judgment creditor must be given the freedom to make a broad inquiry to discover hidden or concealed assets of the judgment debtor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“inquiry must be kept pertinent to the goal of discovering concealed assets of the judgment debtor.”
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.