DCB Construction Co. v. Central City Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 351 Ill. App. 3d 1 - Hayes Mechanical, Inc. v. First Industrial, L.P. (2004), Robinson v. Colorado State Lottery Division (2008)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 31 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 57 Md. App. 766 - Mass Transit Administration v. Granite Construction Co. · J. W. Thompson Co. v. Welles Products Corp. · 695 So. 2d 383 - Commerce v. Equity · Murdock-Bryant Construction, Inc. v. Pearson · 83 Wis. 2d 686 - Puttkammer v. Minth
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“law of natural immutable justice and equity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[blecause tenants frequently contract for improvements to leased property, [and therefore] the law must be sufficiently predictable so that the appropriate parties can adequately calculate and make adjustments for the risks they face.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he notion of what is or is not 'unjust' is an inherently malleable and unpredictable standard.”
3 later decisions 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.