Hopper v. Lennen & Mitchell, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.2d 364 · 1944
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2005
8 federal appellate · 6 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 21 Cal. 2d 176 - Roy v. Salisbury · 46 Cal. App. 178 - Mayborne v. Citizens Trust & Savings Bank · Blake v. . Voigt · Hollywood Motion Picture Equipment Co. v. Furer · 6 Cal. App. 152 - Stewart v. Smith
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The distinction between an excuse for not performing and completion of performance is taken in contracts requiring for their performance a period exceeding one year but which are subject to a right of defeasance not by operation of law but by the express terms of the contract within the period of a year * * *. Such contracts are generally held within the statute."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ...””
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.