New v. New’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 district · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Harm v. Frasher (1960), 152 Cal. App. 2d 543 - Munns v. Stenman (1957)
2 district · 132 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · 20 Cal. 2d 751 - Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Manufacturing Co. · Guth v. Loft, Inc. · 21 Cal. 2d 690 - People v. Huston · Nichols v. Mitchell
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Disney to perform its contractual obligationthat is, to account for and pay Wolf the contingent compensation agreed upon in the contract. Every contract requires one party to repose an element of trust and confidence in the other to perform. For this reason, every contract contains an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, obligating the contracting parties to refrain from”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Being of universal prevalence, [the implied covenant] cannot create a fiduciary relationship; it affords basis for redress for breach of contract and that is all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`doing anything which will have the effect of destroying or injuring the right of the other party to receive the fruits of the contract....'”
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.