Brown & Root, Inc. v. Rust Engineering’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the Talerico case, the court held that the strict rules of the common law precluded the City of San Antonio from bringing into the lawsuit any other party, or from maintaining an independent lawsuit against another party, until the suit against the city terminated by judgment or until the city paid damages. Under today's procedures Brown & Root was at liberty to claim against and bring into this suit Rust and Salvucci at any time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Koonce v. Quaker Safety Products & Manufacturing Co.

2. “we perceive no need to distinguish differences in those cases in which no cause of action ever existed and those cases in which the cause of action was barred by limitations”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Koonce v. Quaker Safety Products & Manufacturing Co.