Echo, Inc. v. Whitson Co.’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 1099 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United Airlines, Inc. v. Mesa Airlines, Inc. (2000), 114 Cal. App. 4th 434 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Superior Court (2003)
18 federal appellate · 2 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 West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 141 Ill. 2d 281 - Quake Construction, Inc. v. American Airlines, Inc. · 144 Ill. 2d 440 - Farm Credit Bank of St. Louis v. Whitlock · 87 Ill. App. 3d 338 - Album Graphics, Inc. v. Beatrice Foods 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The written confirmation is recognized primarily as a writing necessary to satisfy the statute of frauds when the agreement reached is at least partially unenforceable for lack of a writing; this appears to be the primary basis for permitting a written confirmation to act as an acceptance under [§ 2-207].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the obligation of good faith ... creates neither a cause of action sounding in tort nor its own sui generis cause of action.” Echo, Inc. v. Whitson Co., Inc., 121 F.3d 1099, 1106 (7th Cir.1997) (collecting Illinois authorities). 5 . The California Court was, of course, not applying a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 2-207(1) therefore allows a written confirmation to turn an oral or informal agreement into a legally-binding contract based on the terms already agreed upon....”
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.