Link v. Weizenbaum’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2011
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Simpson v. Scott · Board of Supervisors v. Ecology One., Inc. · Houston v. Bain · Lee v. Mutual Reserve Fund Life Ass'n
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his repudiation could not serve as the basis for a claim of breach of contract because his co-obligor did not join in the repudiation either expressly or by assent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here two or more parties jointly contract to do a single act, each is bound for the whole performance.”
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.