Sun Co. v. Badger Design & Constructors, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Werwinski v. Ford Motor Co. (2002), Alejandre v. Bull (2007)
2 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · East River Steamship Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. · Kehr Packages, Inc. v. Fidelcor, Inc. · Shapiro v. UJB Financial Corp.
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 34 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“A party may move for a more definite statement of a pleading to which a responsive pleading is allowed but which is so vague or ambiguous that the party cannot reasonably prepare a response.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“appropriate when the pleading is 'so vague or ambiguous that the opposing party cannot respond, even with a simple denial, in good faith, without prejudice to [itself].'”
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.