Becker v. Hamada, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2018
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Freezer Storage, Inc. v. Armstrong Cork Co. · Howell Ex Rel. Howell v. Burk · 408 & 410 King Street v. Wilmington Housing Authority · State v. Aubrey · Mastellone v. Argo Oil Corp.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Even in malpractice and fraud cases where a discovery rule is applied it is not the actual discovery of the reason for the injury which is the criteria____ [D]iscovery means discovery of facts constituting the basis of the cause of action or the existence of facts sufficient to put a person of ordinary intelligence and prudence on inquiry which, if pursued, would lead to the discovery.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]re prophylactic measures taken by the Legislatures to lessen the construction professionals’ exposure to the almost unlimited liability which has resulted from the demise of the privity doctrine and the imposition of the discovery rule in tort cases. These statutes recognize that construction improvements have a life span of decades and that injury or damage suffered a specific time after control is relinquished to the owner may be the result of improper maintenance or other factors occurring after completion. (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the warranties were breached, if at all, at the time of payment ... or at discovery of defects shortly thereafter.” Id,, at 356. The Court arguably left open the possibility that the warranty claim was subject to the discovery rule for determining the time of accrual under the applicable statute of limitation. 6 . Del.C. § 2-725(2) states that the time of discovery rule applies when”
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.