Kugler v. Romain’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
18 district · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Cox v. Sears Roebuck & Co. (1994), Gennari v. Weichert Co. Realtors (1997)
18 district · 156 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · 4 Cal. 3d 800 - Vasquez v. Superior Court · Hume v. United States · Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. · United States v. California
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“good faith, honesty in fact and observance of fair dealing.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an amorphous concept obviously designed to establish a broad business ethic.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he deception, misrepresentation, and unconscionable practices engaged in by professional sellers seeking mass distribution of many types of consumer goods frequently produce an adverse effect on large segments of disadvantaged and poorly educated people, who are wholly devoid of expertise and least able to understand or to cope with the "sale-oriented,” "extroverted” and unethical solicitors bent on capitalizing upon their weakness, who therefore most need protection against predatory practices. 279 A.2d at 652 .”
8 later decisions 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.