Kamlar Corp. v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Sensenbrenner v. Rust, Orling & Neale, Architects, Inc. (1988), Filak v. George (2004)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 153 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 Garrity v. Lyle Stuart, Inc. · Wright v. Everett · Food Fair Stores, Inc. v. Hevey · Goodstein v. Weinberg · 323 So. 2d 567 - American International Land Corporation v. Hanna
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“led to the 'more or less inevitable efforts of lawyers to turn every breach of contract into a tort.' " Id. (citing W. Prosser, Handbook of the Law of Torts Sec. 92, at 614 (4th ed. 1971)); see also East River, 476 U.S. at 866, 106 S.Ct. at 2299 (if products liability were to expand too greatly, "contract law would drown in a sea of tort”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are limited to the pecuniary loss sustained.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof of an independent, wilful tort, beyond the mere breach of a duty imposed by contract”
4 later decisions 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.