Klein v. Chatfield’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Peter-Michael, Inc. v. Sea Shell Associates (1998), Mystic Marinelife Aquarium, Inc. v. Gill (1978)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 Hackney v. Machado · Brauer v. Freccia · State v. Vars · Johnston Jewels, Ltd. v. Leonard · Lake Garda Improvement Assn. v. Battistoni
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] contract is not made so long as, in the contemplation of the parties, something remains to be done to establish the contractual relation.”
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.