Phelps v. Frampton’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Richards v. JTL Group, Inc. (2009), Dollar Plus Stores, Inc. v. R-Montana Associates, L.P. (2009)
2 district · 41 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 Story v. City of Bozeman · Mary J. Baker Revocable Trust v. Cenex Harvest States, Cooperatives, Inc. · Clark v. Eagle Systems, Inc. · Hughes v. Lynch · Klock v. Town of Cascade
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“breach of an express contractual term is not a prerequisite to breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] party may breach the covenant of good faith and fair dealing without breaching any express term of that contract.”
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.