Reid v. Landon’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Operating Engineers Pension Trust v. Gilliam (1984), Transit Ads, Inc. v. Tanner Motor Livery, Ltd. (1969)
8 federal appellate · 22 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 37 Cal. 2d 696 - M. F. Kemper Construction Co. v. City of Los Angeles · Simmons v. California Institute of Technology · Van Meter v. Bent Construction Co. · Pacific Wharf & Storage Co. v. Standard American Dredging Co. · Hutchinson v. Ainsworth
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether a contract is susceptible of division depends on its terms, the language employed, the subject matter covered, the nature and purpose of the agreement, its relation to other documents in the transaction and the intention of the parties as reflected in its terms.” 333 P.2d at 438 .”
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.