Loftus v. Romsa Construction, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 2025
3 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 Suckow Borax Mines Consolidated, Inc. v. Borax Consolidated, Ltd. · City of Yonkers v. Otis Elevator Co. · Suckow Borax Mines Consolidated, Inc. v. Borax Consolidated, Ltd. · Rogers v. United States · 121 Ga. App. 342 - Phillips v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the presentation of affirmative defenses by motion will depend upon a conclusion that there is no prejudice to the opposing party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] party should not be deprived of his right to prevail on the merits by some technical failure in the pleadings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the assertion of an affirmative defense in a motion for summary judgment is not only appropriate, but is just.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.