Littlejohn v. Parrish’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 177 Ohio App. 3d 262 - Blair v. McDonagh (2008), DiPasquale v. Costas (2010)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Village of Grafton v. Ohio Edison Co. · Comunale v. Traders & General Insurance · 19 Ohio St. 3d 100 - Mers v. Dispatch Printing Co. · Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. · Doe v. Shaffer
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.
“'Good faith performance or enforcement of a contract emphasizes faithfulness to an agreed common purpose and consistency with the justified expectations of the other party.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is an implied duty of good faith and fair dealing in every contract.”
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.