Heller v. Silverbranch Construction Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 54 district · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 274 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Linthicum v. Archambault (1979), International Fidelity Insurance v. Wilson (1983)
31 federal appellate · 54 district · 180 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Federal Trade Commission v. Algoma Lumber Co. · Slaney v. Westwood Auto, Inc. · Reilly v. Pinkus · Federal Trade Commission v. Sinclair Refining Co. · Commonwealth v. DeCotis
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 274 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what [counsel's] services were objectively worth.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the court finds for the petitioner, recovery shall be in actual damages or twenty-five dollars, whichever is greater; or up to three but not less than two times such amount if the court finds that the use or employment of the act or practice was a willful or knowing violation of said section two, or that the refusal to grant relief upon demand was made in bad faith with knowledge or reason to know that the act or practice complained of violated section two.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a statute of broad impact whose basic policy is to ensure an equitable relationship between consumers and persons engaged in business.”
2 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.