Hill v. McDermott, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 1040 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2017
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Smith v. Harmsen · South Trust Bank of Alabama v. VISA, U.S.A., Inc. · California v. Texas
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.
“dismissed any claims brought under the laws of India provided that McDermott would submit to the jurisdiction of an Indian court.”
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.