Hendrickson v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 38 district · 190 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 299 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Paterson-Leitch Co. v. Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. (1988), Demoulas v. Demoulas Super Markets, Inc. (1997)
55 federal appellate · 38 district · 190 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Urie v. Thompson · 6 Cal. 3d 176 - Neel v. Magana, Olney, Levy, Cathcart & Gelfand · 6 Cal. 3d 195 - Budd v. Nixen · 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · Gaudette v. Webb
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 299 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“duty of full and fair disclosure of facts material to the client's interests.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“limitation statutes should apply equally to similar facts regardless of the form of proceeding”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a cause of action accrues on the happening of an event likely to put the plaintiff on notice.”
3 later decisions 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.