Mestas v. Martini’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably American Mining Co. v. Himrod-Kimball Mines Co. (1951), Shull v. Sexton (1964)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Von Trotha v. Bamberger · Gill v. Newell · Knoff v. Grace · French v. Mitchell · Riverside Land & Irrigation Co. v. Sawyer
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right of a party who has done acts in part execution of a verbal contract, to call upon a court of equity to enforce it against the other, is subject to the same general restrictions as that of any other plaintiff in equity.... It must... appear that his position is such that an action at law for damages will not afford him adequate relief. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burnford v. Blanning“it is necessary that all the essential terms of the contract must first be established by competent evidence and shown to be definite, certain, clear, and unambiguous”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yaekle v. Andrews“`the mere nonperformance by the defendant. . . can often be established without determining all the terms of the agreement with exactness,'”
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.