Honda v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2018
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Tuso v. Green · 91 Cal. App. 2d 68 - Grant v. the Aerodraulics Co. · Sass v. Hank · Sistrom v. Anderson · Evans v. Rancho Royale Hotel Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abandonment is not an 'alteration' or modification of a contract. Abandonment of a contract terminates it and entirely abrogates so much of it as is unperformed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Wolf“Section 1698 of the Civil Code, however, has no application to the abandonment by mutual consent of an agreement in writing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Wolf
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.