Hydrite Chemical Co. v. Calumet Lubricants Co.’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 887 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably In the Matter of Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Incorporated (1995), Tas Distributing Company Incorporated v. Cummins Engine Company Incorporated (2007)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Hunter v. Allis-Chalmers Corp. · Mayer v. Gary Partners & Co. · Am International Incorporated v. Graphic Management Associates Incorporated · Miller v. Fairchild Industries, Inc. · United States v. Hernandez
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tort liability requires proof ... that there was injury, regardless of how much, so that if the trial is divided, as is commonly done, between liability and damages, the fact of injury belongs in the first trial and the quantification of the injury by means of an assessment of damages in the second. Liability in a contract case ... does not depend on proof of injury. Proof of liability is complete when the breach of contract is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fact of injury and the amount of injury. Tort liability requires proof of the first, that is, proof that there was injury, regardless of how much.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily a party will not be heard to complain about an erroneous ruling that he himself precipitated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.