Kalain v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 328 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Moskovitz v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center (1994), Villella v. Waikem Motors, Inc. (1989)
31 federal appellate · 328 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 Huffman v. Hair Surgeon, Inc.
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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to make a good faith effort to settle”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the term `good faith effort to settle' means an honest, purposeful effort, free of malice and the design to defraud or to seek an unconscionable advantage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.