Harm v. Frasher’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 866 - Chern v. Bank of America (1976), 147 Cal. App. 3d 805 - April Enterprises, Inc. v. KTTV (1983)
12 federal appellate · 104 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 20 Cal. 2d 751 - Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Manufacturing Co. · Brown v. Superior Court · Andrews v. California Trust Co. · Nelson v. Abraham · 161 Cal. App. 2d 762 - Nevarov v. Caldwell
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]everal contracts relating to the same matters, between the same parties, and made as parts of substantially one transaction, are to be taken together”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“but also [imposes] the duty to do everything that the contract presupposes that he will do to accomplish its purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“do anything which will deprive the other parties thereto of the benefits of the contract,”
2 later decisions 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.