Halstead v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2002
3 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Babcock v. Jackson · Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Hiigel v. General Motors Corporation · Clark v. Clark
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.
“in a situation where a professional renders individualized services, such as an architect who designs a single set of plans and specifications for a single building, the imposition of strict products liability would clearly be inappropriate.”
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.