Thibeault v. Square D Co.’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 239 · 1992
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 42 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 122 Wash. 2d 299 - Washington State Physicians Insurance Exchange & Ass'n v. Fisons Corp. (1993), Roche v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance (1996)
57 federal appellate · 42 district · 6 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Link v. Wabash Railroad · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp.
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his sort of disclosure is consonant with the federal courts' desire to make a trial less a game of blindman's buff and more a fair contest with the basic issues and facts disclosed to the fullest practical extent”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“discovery must not be allowed to degenerate into a game of cat and mouse.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[H]ad the court allowed the tardy supplementation, Square D would have had to scrap much of its earlier preparation in favor of a frantic, last-minute scramble ... and rebut a new and different case concept... [W]e do not think it is either reasonable or fair to expect a litigant to bear so onerous a burden.”
3 later decisions 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.