Freda v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Fuessenich v. DiNardo (1985), Adzima v. UAC/Norden Division (1979)
53 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 Collins v. Lewis · Dolan v. Dolan · Davis v. Margolis · Johnson v. Shattuck · Automobile Insurance v. Model Family Laundries, Inc.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] true implied contract can only exist where there is no express one. . . .”
2 later decisions 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.