Hecht Co. v. Jacobsen’s Empirical Analysis
180 F.2d 13 · 1950
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Doucette v. Vincent (1952), Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apartment Corp. (1970)
64 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Behymer · Washington Co v. McDade · Railroad Company v. Lockwood · Southern Railway-Carolina Division v. Bennett · Rodd v. Heartt
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Such evidence goes only to the question of what could reasonably have been done, there is no need to prove that a given precaution has attained the status of a custom."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Motter v. Snell“We do not think that the trial court abused its discretion when it sustained the jury's award of $15,000 to the infant plaintiff and $2,000 to her father.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levine v. Mills
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.