Fleet Mortgage Corp. v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Callahan v. New Mexico Federation of Teachers-TVI (2006), Lexington Insurance v. Rummel (1997)
4 federal appellate · 20 district · 44 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 Schmitz v. Smentowski · Pharmaseal Laboratories, Inc. v. Goffe · Koenig v. Perez · Valdez v. Cillessen & Son, Inc. · Staley v. New
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A third-party may have an enforceable right against an actual party to a contract if the third-party is a beneficiary of the contract. A third-party is a beneficiary if the actual parties to the contract intended to benefit the third-party. The intent to benefit the third-party must appear either from the contract itself or from some evidence that the person claiming to be a third party beneficiary is an intended beneficiary.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only intended beneficiaries can seek enforcement of a contract. The promisor must have had reason to know the benefit was contemplated by the promise as one of the motivating causes for entering the contract. The paramount indicator of a third party beneficiary status is a showing that the parties to the contract intended to benefit the third party, either individually or as a member of a class of beneficiaries.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Summary judgment is appropriate if no genuine issue as to any material fact exists, so that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
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.