Forbes v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2016
19 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 Professional Realty Corp. v. Bender · Kelly Health Care, Inc. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Inc. · Friedberg v. Riverpoint Building Committee · Richmond Shopping Center, Inc. v. Wiley N. Jackson Co. · Duvall v. Ford Leasing Development Corp.
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.
“The third party beneficiary doctrine is subject to the limitation that the third party must show that the parties to the contract clearly and definitely intended it to confer a benefit upon him.”
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.