Eck v. Kellem’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hendrickson v. Sears · Bowen v. Eli Lilly & Co. · Greene v. Greene · 29 Mass. App. Ct. 215 - International Mobiles Corp. v. Corroon & Black/Fairfield & Ellis, Inc. · Fireside Motors, Inc. v. Nissan Motor Corp. in U.S.A.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether it was the commencement of the [purchaser's] suit, or the judgment therein, that was the first event reasonably likely to put Eck on notice that Kellem's sale agreement may have caused his injury....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here must be notice of a causal relationship between the harmful event attributed to the defendant ... and the harm suffered by the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hether, in fact, Kellem was negligent in the preparation of the sale agreement had to await the outcome of the [purchaser's] suit....”
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.