R.L. Clark Drilling Contractors, Inc. v. Schramm, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, and Third-Party and Aeroquip Corporation, a Michigan Corporation, Additional v. F.B. Wright Company, a Corporation Philadelphia F.B. Wright Distribution Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Third Party-Defendants-Appellees’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 1306 · 1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc. (1992), Trierweiler v. Croxton & Trench Holding Corp. (1996)
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 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
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Arizona v. Manypenny · Golden Eagle Distributing Corp. v. Burroughs Corp. · Frackelton v. Swanson · Smith v. Ford Motor 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he same law applies to the substance of the suit and to attorneys' fees, because attorneys' fees are part of the substance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[c]ounsel bear a substantial responsibility for assisting the court in identifying the factual issues worthy of trial. If counsel fail to identify an issue for the court the right to have the issue tried is waived.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]tatutes providing for attorneys' fees impose a liability which one may enforce as a matter of right. Such fees are put in controversy in the suit and are a part of the substantive right.”
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.