Kidd v. Havens’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2015
4 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.
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.
“As a shorthand rule encapsulating those requirements, it has been noted that, for defendants to be liable, reliance by plaintiff upon the representation must be 'the end aim of the transaction', rather than an 'indirect or collateral' consequence of it”
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.