Heil Co. v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Rahmig v. Mosley MacHinery Co. (1987), Maxey v. Freightliner Corp. (1982)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Halepeska v. Callihan Interests, Inc. · Rourke v. Garza · Austin Road Co. v. Pope · 46 Ill. 2d 288 - Moore v. Jewel Tea Co. · Otis Elevator Company v. Wood
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.
“We believe that exemplary damages may be recovered under (article XVI, Section 26) of the Texas Constitution in a strict liability action for the death of the user of a defective product.”
2 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.