Kurker v. Hell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 102 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 199 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Taylor v. American Chemistry Council (2009), Equipment & Systems for Industry, Inc. v. Northmeadows Construction Co. (2003)
6 federal appellate · 102 district · 81 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 Conley v. Gibson · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Nader v. Citron · Payton v. Abbott Labs · Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc.
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 199 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person may be liable in tort if he 'knows that the ... conduct [of another person] constitutes a breach of duty and gives substantial assistance or encouragement to the other so to conduct himself.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Key to this cause of action is a defendant's substantial assistance, [given] with the knowledge that such assistance is contributing to a common tortious plan.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'concerted action,' whereby liability is imposed on one individual for the tort of another.”
6 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.