STV Engineers, Inc. v. Greiner Engineering, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 784 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2013
11 federal appellate ·
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 International Oilfield Divers, Inc. v. Pickle · Ram Construction Company Inc v. American States Insurance Company American States Insurance Company · Channel Home Centers, Division of Grace Retail Corp. v. Grossman · Kroblin Refrigerated Xpress, Inc. v. Pitterich · John Harkins Company Inc v. Waldinger Corporation
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the focus is whether the court is deciding the legal effect of an agreement on an event not foreseen by the parties.”
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.