Hellman v. Thiele’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Olson v. Fraase (1988), Myers v. Richland County (2005)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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 Sutliff, Inc. v. Donovan Companies, Inc. · Chrysler Credit Corporation v. First National Bank And Trust Company Of Washington · Hillesland v. Federal Land Bank Ass'n of Grand Forks · 149 Ill. App. 3d 956 - Popp v. Dyslin · Herzog v. Yuill
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] promise made without any intention of performing it”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"§ 551. Liability for Nondisclosure "(1) One who fails to disclose to another a fact that he knows may justifiably induce the other to act or refrain from acting in a business transaction is subject to the same liability to the other as though he had represented the nonexistence of the matter that he has failed to disclose, if, but only if, he is under a duty to the other to exercise reasonable care to disclose the matter in question."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““They allege that the Bank engaged in a pattern of paying Thiele’s overdrafts, knowing Thiele was insolvent, in an effort to keep the business afloat long enough for the Bank to become fully secured on its various loans to Thiele.... [T]he Bank ... abruptly quit paying Thiele’s overdrafts, leaving them holding approximately $447,000 of worthless checks drawn on Thiele’s account.””
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.