Schade v. Diethrich’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hyatt Regency Phoenix Hotel Co. v. Winston & Strawn (1995), AROK Construction Co. v. Indian Construction Services (1993)
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 61 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 Federal Trade Commission v. Mandel Bros. · Joy v. City of St Louis · Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance · 26 Wis. 2d 683 - Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc. · Calvert v. Farmers Ins. Co. of Arizona
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he actions of the parties may show conclusively that they have intended to conclude a binding agreement, even though one or more terms are missing or are left to be agreed upon. In such cases, courts endeavor, if possible, to attach a sufficiently definite meaning to the bargain.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this case, both Schade and Diethrich began performing within days of making the contract. Having accepted Dieth-rich’s offer by resigning his former position on November 17, 1982, Schade undertook his newly defined duties for the Congress the next day. According to the terms of his agreement with Diethrich, he continued to perform these duties in support of the Congress through March 6, 1983. Diethrich, for his part, attended the Foundation’s board meeting on December 22, 1982 to personally request the appointment of the committee that would formulate Schade’s severance package. By these acts the parties clearly manifested their joint understanding that they were bound by their promises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here were a number of oral conversations among Schade, Diethrich and Dieth-rich’s attorney and agent Paul Meyer culminating in an offer made to Schade by Diethrich that if Schade would resign his employment with both Defendants and the International Heart Foundation effective immediately, Schade would receive fair and equitable severance benefits based on his tireless service of IOV2 years and his unique contributions, that an unbiased committee would be appointed to make recommendations as to the amount of fair and equitable severance benefits and Schade would continue to work toward presenting the International Cardiovascular Congress IV.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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