Heller v. Equitable Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2005
19 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 King v. Equitable Gas Co. · Morrissey v. Commonwealth · Greed v. Manufacturers' Light & Heat Co. · Windish v. Peoples Natural Gas Co. · Hanley v. Peoples Natural Gas Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. [W]hen defendant’s employees undertook to ascertain the cause of leaking gas upon plaintiff’s premises, and discovered a corroded and perforated service line and then proceeded to repair it, they were under a duty to make an adequate inspection to determine whether the remaining sections of the line were in the same condition as those which they had removed and replaced with new pipe. . Defendant was obligated to go further [than to merely install a new section of pipe], in view of the knowledge acquired of the condition of the pipe and the character of the ground in which it was laid, and to ascertain whether the corrosion extended to the remaining portions of the line . 3 A.2d at 344 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.