Warner v. Konover’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 208 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Peter-Michael, Inc. v. Sea Shell Associates (1998), Home Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (1995)
3 federal appellate · 12 district · 183 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 Sheets v. Teddy's Frosted Foods, Inc. · Michaud v. Wawruck · Robinson v. Weitz · Danpar Associates v. Somersville Mills Sales Room, Inc. · Central New Haven Development Corporation v. La Crepe, Inc.
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 208 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every contract imposes upon each party a duty of good faith and fair dealing in its performance and its enforcement.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“Good faith performance or enforcement of a contract emphasizes faithfulness to an agreed common purpose and consistency with the justified expectations of the other party . . . .”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“2. Breach of the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing”
7 later decisions 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.