Flaherty v. Schettino’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Paiva v. Vanech Heights Construction Co. (1970), 63 N.J. Super. 369 - Ocean Cape Hotel Corp. v. Masefield Corp. (1960)
6 district · 24 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 Farley-Harvey Co. v. Madden · Gillespie v. J. C. Piles & Co. · Watson v. Silsby · Barlow Brothers Co. v. Gager · Levy v. Carter Rice & 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] promise to do an act in the future when coupled with a present intent not to fulfill it, is a false representation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the intention of the promisor not to perform cannot be established by proof of nonperformance only, nor does his (sic) failure to perform an agreement throw upon him (or her) the burden of showing that his (or her) nonperformance was due to reasons which operated after the agreement was entered into.”
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.