K Mart Corp. v. Ponsock’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 24 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon (1990), 47 Cal. 3d 654 - Foley v. Interactive Data Corp. (1988)
16 federal appellate · 24 district · 80 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 36 Cal. 3d 752 - Seaman's Direct Buying Service, Inc. v. Standard Oil Co. · Hansen v. Harrah's · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Peterson · 181 Cal. App. 3d 1155 - Koehrer v. Superior Court · Southwest Gas Corp. v. Ahmad
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough a duty of good faith and fair dealing is created by law in all cases, it is only in rare and exceptional cases that the duty is of such a nature as to give rise to tort liability. The kind of breach of duty that brings into play the bad faith tort arises only when there are special relationships between the tort-victim and the tortfeasor....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“beyond the bounds of ordinary liability for breach of contract.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]very contract imposes upon each party a duty of good faith and fair dealing in its performance and its enforcement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.