Bethlehem Engineering Export Co. v. Christie’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.2d 933 · 1939
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Unicon Management Corp. v. Koppers Co. (1966), Original Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Co. v. River Valley Cookies, Ltd. (1992)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Crawford v. . Mail Express Publishing Co. · Feeney v. Long Island Railroad · Doll v. . Noble · Engemoen v. Rea · Brush-Swan Electric Light Co. of New England v. Brush Electric Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would indeed be easy to forbid the defendant to contract with anyone else, and that might force them to go on with the plaintiff’s contract. But the continuance of such an injunction would depend upon the continuance of the defendant’s obligation to the plaintiff; and the continuance of that obligation would in turn depend upon the plaintiff’s continued performance of its duties under the contract. . They involve, not only the faithful prosecution of the business in general (which of itself might involve constant scrutiny) but cooperation with the defendants .... Every reason which makes a specific performance of the defendants’ obligation impracticable applies equally to an injunction conditional on the plaintiff’s performance, since the two performances are so mutually interwoven.” (p. 935)”
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.