Bragdon v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2024
2 district · 17 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 Varney v. . Ditmars · Von Reitzenstein v. Tomlinson · Corthell v. Summit Thread Co. · Morneault v. Inhabitants of Town of Hampden · Ross v. Mancini
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the parties have promised an indefinite payment in addition to a definite price, as for example, the promise to pay some indefinite compensation in addition to a stated wage, or an unspecified profit in addition to the cost of goods, though it is possible that the parties intended a bargain, the inference would be to the contrary; in such a case, though the agreement might be unenforceable as made, the existence of the indefinite promise might rebut any assertion that the specified sum was controlling, and might preserve the right to recover to the extent that the reasonable value exceeded the specified sum.”
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.