Forgeron Inc. v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Vestar Development Ii, Llc, an Arizona Limited Liability v. General Dynamics Corporation, a Corporation (2001), Beck v. American Health Group International, Inc. (1989)
8 federal appellate · 13 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 Simmons v. California Institute of Technology · Bard v. Kent · Williams v. Hasshagen · Tiffany & Co. v. Spreckels · Lasar v. Johnson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agreement to make in the future such a contract as may be agreed upon at the later time amounts to nothing, is not binding, and cannot be made the basis of a cause of action.””
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.