Filak v. George’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Augusta Mut. Ins. Co. v. Mason (2007), Ulloa v. Qsp, Inc. (2006)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 102 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 Sensenbrenner v. Rust, Orling & Neale, Architects, Inc. · Kamlar Corp. v. Haley · Yuzefovsky v. St. John's Wood Apartments · Blake Const. Co., Inc. v. Alley · Glazebrook v. Board of Supervisors
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of a breach of contract action are (1) a legally enforceable obligation of a defendant to a plaintiff; (2) the defendant's violation or breach of that obligation; and (3) injury or damage to the plaintiff caused by the breach of obligation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of torts provides redress only for the violation of certain common law and statutory duties involving the safety of persons and property, which are imposed to protect the broad interests of society.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[L]osses suffered as a result of the breach of a duty assumed only by agreement, rather than a duty imposed by law, remain the sole province of the law of contracts.”
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.