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← 133 CALAPP2D 325 - Verdier v. Verdier

Verdier v. Verdier’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
3
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 56 Cal. 2d 329 - Vai v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n (1961), 223 Cal. App. 4th 221 - Rutherford Holdings, LLC v. Plaza Del Rey (2014)

7 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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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 Hobart v. Hobart Estate Co. · 36 Cal. 2d 167 - Southern California Jockey Club, Inc. v. California Horse Racing Board · 30 Cal. 2d 274 - Estate of Wunderle · Western Coal & Mining Co. v. Jones · Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Golden State 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To construe covenants as dependent is to work a forfeiture as to one party, and no obligation of a contract is to be regarded as a condition precedent unless made so by express terms or necessary implication”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 236 Cal. Rptr. 3d 542 - Colaco v. Cavotec SA
  2. ““The signers of this agreement, are husband and wife; and each now agrees from this time forward to live separate and apart from the other, and each agrees not to molest the other.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Moore v. Moore
  3. “covenants are independent, breach of one does not excuse the performance of the other”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as a Receiver of United States National Bank v. Air Florida System, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Air Florida System, Inc., Counter-Claimant v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Counter-Defendant. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as a Receiver of United States National Bank v. Air Florida System, Inc., a Delaware Corporation

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.