Jacobs v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 67 Cal. App. 4th 779 - Badie v. Bank of America (1998), Miller v. Fairchild Industries, Inc. (1989)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 62 Cal. 2d 861 - Parsons v. Bristol Development Co. · 17 Cal. 3d 937 - Murphy v. Allstate Insurance · Estate of Lances · 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway · Brown v. Superior Court
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“imposes upon the parties an obligation to do everything that the contract presupposes they will do to accomplish its purpose.”
1 later decision 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.