Kennedy v. Hasse’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Hill v. Okay Const. Co., Inc. (1977), State v. Martin (1973)
24 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 George v. Conhaim · Abbott v. Moldestad · Rahm v. Cummings · Poksyla v. Sundholm · O. W. Kerr Co. v. Nygren
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is not necessary that every possible question be answered in advance by the parties before a contract can be enforced; it is only necessary that the intent of the parties as to fundamental terms be ascertainable with reasonable certainty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brownlee v. Ertzos“In contract law, a waiver is defined as an intentional relinquishment of a known right, and it must “clearly be made to appear from the facts disclosed.””
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.