23 Cal. App. 164 - B. & W. Engineering Co. v. Beam’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 1 - Beeler v. American Trust Co. (1944), 37 Cal. 2d 592 - Potter v. Pacific Coast Lumber Co. (1951)
44 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 Alhambra Addition Water Co. v. Richardson · Gribble v. Columbus Brewing Co. · Lapp-Gifford Co. v. Muscoy Water Co. · Wilson v. California Central Railroad · Simons v. Supreme Council American Legion of Honor
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase ‘accord and satisfaction’ as it is known and applied in the law means the substitution of a new agreement for and in satisfaction of a pre-existing agreement between the same parties. ... As a matter of course an agreement of accord and satisfaction presupposes a prior controversy concerning the relative rights of the parties under the pre-existing agreement. ...””
1 later decision 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.