Conopco, Inc. v. McCreadie’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2022
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Griffin v. Hilke · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · Veazey v. Doremus
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n New Jersey, as a matter of public policy, a tort claim cannot be assigned.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he cases presenting mixed contracts of this type are legion. The test for inclusion or exclusion [from the UCC's coverage] is not whether they are mixed, but, granting that they are mixed, whether their predominant factor, their thrust, their purpose, reasonably stated, is the rendition of service, with goods incidentally involved (e.g., contract with artist for painting) or is a transaction of sale, with labor incidentally involved (e.g., installation of a waterheater in a bathroom). [ Meyers v. Henderson Construction Co., 147 N.J. Super. 77, 82 , 370 A. 2d 547 (Law Div. 1977) (quoting Bonebrake v. Cox, 499 F. 2d 951, 960 (8th Cir.1974).)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether, and under what conditions, [a tort claim] can be effectively assigned is determined by the local law of the state which has the most significant relationship to the contract and the parties with respect to the issue of assignability”
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.