Hydro Conduit Corp. v. Kemble’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Hartbarger v. Frank Paxton Co. (1993), Handmaker v. Henney (1999)
3 federal appellate · 16 district · 57 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 Paschall's, Inc. v. Dozier · Hicks v. State · Methola v. County of Eddy · 57 Md. App. 766 - Mass Transit Administration v. Granite Construction Co. · Albuquerque National Bank v. Albuquerque Ranch Estates, Inc.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. Governmental entities are granted immunity from actions based on contract, except actions based on a valid written contract. B. Every claim permitted by this section shall be forever barred unless brought within two years from the time of accrual.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Actions brought upon theories of unjust enrichment, quasi contract, contract implied in law, and quantum meruit are essentially the same. Courts frequently employ various terminology interchangeably to describe that class of implied obligations where, on the basis of justice and equity, the law will impose a contractual relationship between parties, regardless of their assent thereto.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]ven though an action for [quantum meruit] is not based on contract in a strict theoretical sense, it is so closely related to an action which is so based that the immunity statute . . . should be construed to extend immunity to an unjust enrichment claim as well as to a claim founded on a true, but unwritten, contract.”
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.