Borcich v. Ancich’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 392 · 1951
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2014
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · Savings Bank v. Ward · Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · United States v. The Australia Star
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a tort to the person or property of one man does not make the tort-feasor liable to another merely because the injured person was under a contract with that other unknown to the doer of the wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carbone v. Ursich
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.