Eagle Traffic Control v. Addco’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2013
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · Pledger v. Medlock · Kulalani Ltd. v. Corey · Markowitz v. Northeast Land Co. · No. 90-6051
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]ort law is not intended to compensate parties for losses suffered as a result of a breach of duties assumed only by agreement.... A buyer[’s] ... desire to enjoy the benefit of his bargain is not an interest that tort law traditionally protects.”
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.