← 170 CALAPP2D 189 - Carter v. Milestone

Carter v. Milestone’s Empirical Analysis

1959

Citation profile

cited by 12 later decisions

May 2001

most recently cited

3 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2001

3 federal appellate ·

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 52 Cal. App. 322 - Dillingham v. Dahlgren · 147 Cal. App. 2d 11 - Hickson v. Thielman

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“It is, of course, elementary that a writing which is intended by the parties to be a mere memorandum of intention to negotiate a contract and which does not purport to state the essentials of a proposed agreement is unenforceable. Whether the writing which is before us should be construed as a complete agreement or only as a memorandum which left essentials to future negotiations was to be decided in accordance with the ascertained intentions of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Roth v. Garcia Marquez · Vestar Development Ii, Llc, an Arizona Limited Liability v. General Dynamics Corporation, a Corporation
“The parties agree that the form of formal contract to be entered into will be the standard form of motion picture production contract and shall contain all of the rights usually contained therein....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Richard Roth Richard Roth Productions v. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carmen Balcells, Richard Roth Richard Roth Productions, Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellees v. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carmen Balcells, Defendants-Cross-Appellants · Roth
“'[t]here is no such thing as a standard form of motion picture production contract. Such contracts generally run from seventy to ninety pages and each of the terms of such contracts can and do vary.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Richard Roth Richard Roth Productions v. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carmen Balcells, Richard Roth Richard Roth Productions, Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellees v. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Carmen Balcells, Defendants-Cross-Appellants · Roth

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.