Heyman v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1993
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Allison v. Chandler · Goldman v. Feinberg · Skene v. Carayanis · R an W Hat Shop, Inc. v. Sculley · Harry R. Defler Corp. v. Kleeman
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature of the case is such as the wrongdoer has chosen to make it: and, upon every consideration of justice, he is the party who should be made to sustain all the risk of loss which may arise from the uncertainty pertaining to the nature of the case and the difficulty of accurately estimating the results of his own wrongful act.”
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.