Heckrotte v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 56 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Jacques v. First National Bank (1986), Council of Co-Owners Atlantis Condominium, Inc. v. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. (1986)
5 federal appellate · 56 district · 33 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 Piper v. Jenkins · Blondell v. Turover · Gilbert Construction Co. v. Gross · Kandalis v. Paul Pet Construction Co. · Perlmutter v. Bacas
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere negligent breach of a contract, absent a duty or obligation imposed by law independent of that arising out of the contract itself, is not enough to sustain an action sounding in tort.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a breach of contract is also a violation of a duty imposed by law ... the injured party has a choice of remedies.”
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.