Sullivan v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Searles v. Fleetwood Homes of Pennsylvania, Inc. (2005), Advanced Construction Corp. v. Pilecki (2006)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 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 Northeast Investment Co. v. Leisure Living Communities, Inc. · Wayne v. Farm Family Mutual Insurance · Forrest Associates v. Passamaquoddy Tribe · June Roberts Agency, Inc. v. Venture Properties, Inc. · A. B. C. Auto Parts, Inc. v. Moran
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.
“A contract exists if the parties mutually assent to be bound by all its material terms, the assent is either expressly or impliedly manifested in the contract, and the contract is sufficiently definite to enable the court to ascertain its exact meaning and fix exactly the legal liabilities * * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the party seeking to enforce the contract must establish ,., that the parties did enter into a contract,”
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.