Castle v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2024
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 40 Cal. 3d 488 - Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc. · Iowa Fuel & Minerals, Inc. v. Iowa State Board of Regents · Boss Barbara, Inc. v. Newbill · Sachs v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ETC. · Economy Rentals, Inc. v. Garcia
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a court will not imply a standard of reasonableness in the face of the parties' expressed intent to the contrary, if a contract is silent regarding the manner of performance, `a term which is reasonable in the circumstances is supplied by the court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kruskal v. Moss“one party will not change the location of the boundary line fences... without the express written consent of the other party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he consent clause contains an implied covenant of reasonableness.”
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.