Angel v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Providence Journal Company v. Mason (1976), Salo Landscape & Construction Co., Inc. v. Liberty Electric Company (1977)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 20 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 Linz v. Schuck · McGovern v. . City of New York · Lingenfelder v. Wainwright Brewing Co. · Mason v. Bowerman Bros., Inc. · Alaska Packers' Ass'n v. Domenico
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A promise modifying a duty under a contract not fully performed on either side is binding (a) if the modification is fair and equitable in view of circumstances not anticipated by the parties when the contract was made * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowey v. Watt
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.