Beck v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2001
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 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 Trotter v. Lewis · Peoples Drug Stores, Inc. v. Fenton Realty Corp. · Barranco v. Kostens · Moran v. Hammersla · Brummel v. Clifton Realty Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course, specific performance of a contract will not be decreed unless it is clear, unambiguous, and certain in all its parts and is fair and mutual, [citing cases] A contract, to be final, must include all the terms which the parties intend to introduce and material terms cannot be left for future settlement.” 198 Md. at 248 , 81 A.2d at 609-10 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Goettee
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.