15 Cal. 3d 130 - Taylor v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 14 Cal. 4th 479 - Romano v. Rockwell International, Inc. (1996), 25 Cal. App. 4th 11 - Golden West Baseball Co. v. City of Anaheim (1994)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 54 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 Gold Mining & Water Co. v. Swinerton · 5 Cal. App. 2d 738 - Atkinson v. District Bond Co. · 51 Cal. 2d 12 - Guerrieri v. Severini · Whitney Investment Co. v. Westview Development Co. · 157 Cal. App. 2d 352 - Salot v. Wershow
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“put[ ] it out of [Ingle's] power to perform so as to make substantial performance of [its] promise impossible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a promisor repudiates a contract, the injured party faces an election of remedies: he can treat the repudiation as an anticipatory breach and immediately seek damages for breach of contract, thereby terminating the contractual relation between the parties, or he can treat the repudiation as an empty threat, wait until the time for performance arrives and exercise his remedies for actual breach if a breach does in fact occur at such time”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a clear, positive, unequivocal refusal to perform”
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.