Watson v. Aced’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Keel v. Titan Construction Corp. (1981), City & County of San Francisco v. Western Air Lines, Inc. (1962)
7 federal appellate · 40 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 Overton v. Vita-Food Corp. · Collins v. Vickter Manor, Inc. · Cochran v. Ellsworth · 92 Cal. App. 2d 267 - Merrick v. Larson · Montaldo v. Hires Bottling 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the general rule that one may not sue upon a contract unless he is a party to that contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A contract, made expressly for the benefit of a third-person, may be enforced by him at any time before the parties thereto rescind it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'in an express manner; in direct or unmistakeable terms; explicitly; definitely; directly.'”
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.