Hal Roach Studios, Inc. v. Film Classics, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.2d 596 · 1946
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2000
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Callanan v. . K., A.C. L.C.R.R. Co. · Noyes v. . Anderson · F. A. Straus & Co. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Co. · Helgar Corporation v. . Warner's Features · Oceanic Steam Nav. Co. v. Corcoran
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The provision for rescission is one going to the ‘essential validity’ of the contract and deals with consequences flowing from failure in performance of that contract. Under orthodox conflict of laws rules this provision is to be given effect by the forum according to the law of the place of performance. * * * Where, however, there is no single place of performance, and there are many jurisdictions with which the contract has close association, there seems no reason, apart from the policy of the forum, why the parties cannot specify the law of one jurisdiction as controlling, so long as there is that sufficient relationship to make it reasonable that the law chosen sho'uld apply.” Ibid. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.