Luzadder v. Despatch Oven Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 federal appellate · 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · McKenna v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] valuable addition made to property (usually real estate) or an amelioration in its condition, amounting to more than mere repairs or replacement of waste, costing labor or capital, and intended to enhance its value, beauty or utility or to adapt it for new or further purposes.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to be an improvement to real property. Luzadder v. Despatch Oven Co., 651 F.Supp. 239 (W.D.Pa.1986); Gnall v. Illinois Water Treatment Co., 640 F.Supp. 815 (M.D.Pa.1986). Smith, 514 So.2d at 1230 (emphasis added). ¶ 15. An”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.