13 Utah 2d 83 - Bunnell v. Bills’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Leigh Furniture and Carpet Co. v. Isom (1982), American Airlines v. Christensen (1992)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 64 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 8 Utah 2d 370 - Andreasen v. Hansen · 8 Utah 2d 119 - Reese v. Harper · 11 Utah 2d 64 - Hansen v. Snell · 11 Utah 2d 421 - Gammon v. Federated Milk Producers Ass'n, Inc. · 10 Utah 2d 63 - Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Helpers of America, Local Unions No. 222 and No. 976 v. Board of Review, Department of Employment Security
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A binding contract can exist only where there has been mutual assent by the parties manifesting their intention to be bound by its terms. Furthermore, a contract can be enforced by the courts only if the obligations of the parties are set forth with sufficient definiteness that it can be performed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“one who persuades another ... to breach a contract is guilty of an actionable tort”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If (defendant) has a present, existing economic interest to protect, such as the ownership or condition of property, or prior contract of his own, or a financial interest in the affairs of the person persuaded, he is privileged to prevent performance of the contract of another which threatens it....”
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.