Parrish v. Wightman’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Moore Brothers Company v. Brown & Root Incorporated Highlands Insurance Company Toll Road Investors Partnership II Lp Moore Brothers Company (2000), Whitt v. Godwin (1965)
7 federal appellate · 11 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 Amies v. Wesnofske · 3 E.H. Smith 489 - Dolan v. . Rodgers · Young v. . Hunter · Matter of Casualty Co. (Bliss Co. Claim)
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a promisor himself is the cause of the failure of performance of a condition upon which his own liability depends, he cannot take advantage of the failure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a contract is performable on the occurrence of a future event there is an implied agreement that the promisor' will place no obstacle in the way of the happening of such event, particularly where it is dependent in whole or in part on his own act', and, where he prevents the fulfillment of a condition precedent or its performance by the adverse party, he cannot rely on such condition to defeat his liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. SNAP, Inc.“If a promisor prevents or hinders the occurrence of a condition ... and the condition would have occurred ... except for such prevention or hindrance , the condition is excused, and ... does not discharge the promisor's duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.