McCoy v. Pastorius’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2020
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Rifle Potato Growers Co-Operative Ass'n v. Smith · McKinley v. Mineral Hill Consolidated Mining Co. · Bennett's, Inc. v. Krogh · Stanton v. Union Oil Co. · German American Indemnity Co. v. State Mercantile Bank
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract may provide that it shall come to an end at the option of one or either of the parties, and such a stipulation when fairly entered into will be enforced if not contrary to equity and good conscience. The presence of such a provision has no effect on the binding obligations of the contract as long as the parties continue to act under it before revoking or terminating it.”
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.