Roesberg v. Johns-Manville Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. (1980), Compagnie Francaise d'Assurance Pour le Commerce Exterieur v. Phillips Petroleum Co. (1984)
3 federal appellate · 21 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1261 · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Hickman v. Taylor · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Schlagenhauf v. Holder · Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show specifically how ... each interrogatory is not relevant or how each question is overly broad, burdensome or oppressive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“overly broad, burdensome, oppressive and irrelevant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Privilege is, of course, a valid objection to interrogatories .. . but the mere claim of the privilege does not justify a refusal to identify properly the information and documents requested by plaintiff.... The party invoking the privilege defense must show that what it seeks to protect falls therein.” (Citations omitted.)”
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.