Hartford Fire Insurance v. Lawrence, Dykes, Goodenberger, Bower & Clancy’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 1362 · 1984
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Zapata v. Burns (1988), Kochins v. Linden-Alimak, Inc. (1986)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Dandridge v. Williams · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person performing services for or furnishing the design, planning, supervision of construction, or construction”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of an improvement to real property and persons who supply products used in construction of the improvement. Id. at 1371. We held that,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“state legislatures are presumed by federal courts to have acted constitutionally in making laws.”
3 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.