Palmer v. Bahm’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Chase v. Bearpaw Ranch Ass'n (2006), Wells Fargo Bank v. Talmage (2007)
2 district · 32 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 Armstrong v. State · Kullick v. Skyline Homeowners Ass'n, Inc. · State v. Veis · F.H. v. C.P.H. · Sun Valley Iowa Lake Ass'n v. Anderson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless [a party] is an intended third-party beneficiary of the contract, a stranger to a contract lacks standing to bring an action for breach of that contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thorson v. Reynolds“strangers to a contract have no rights under the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thorson v. Reynolds
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.