Hecht Co. v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
214 F.2d 212 · 1954
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Harrison Richardson v. Thomas E. Gregory (1960), Gaither v. Myers (1968)
47 federal appellate · 13 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 Seymour v. Osborne · Ross v. Hartman · Oliphant v. Atlantic Coast Line R. · John Wilcox and Thomas Wilcox v. The Executors of Kemp Plummer · Peigh v. Baltimore & O. R.
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of the Company’s negligence is to be decided on all relevant evidence, including violation of any safety regulation found to be applicable, and consequently admissible in evidence, but including also facts tending to show due care on the part of the Company in the selection and installation of the door.” [93 U.S.App.D.C. at page 386, 214 F.2d at pages 215-216.]”
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.