String v. Steven Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2007
4 district · 16 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 Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · St. Paul at Chase Corp. v. Manufacturers Life Insurance · Nizer v. Phelps · P. Flanigan & Sons, Inc. v. Childs · Williams v. Wheeler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no doubt that these statements did not amount to a definite and specific anticipatory breach or repudiation of the contract. It was said in Friedman v. Katzner, 139 Md. 195, 201 , 114 A. 884 , 886: ‘A breach of contract is a failure without legal excuse to perform any promise which forms the whole or part of a contract (Williston on Contracts, § 1288), and may be inferred from the “refusal of a party to recognize the existence of a contract, or the doing of something inconsistent with its existence” (6 R.C.L., 1016); and when “in anticipation of the time of performance one definitely and specifically refuses to do something which he is obligated to do, so that it amounts to a refusal to go on with the contract, it may be treated as a breach by anticipation, and the other party may, at his election, treat the contract as abandoned, and act accordingly. This principle is well settled and applied in many cases. [Cases cited.]” But refusal to perform must be positive and unconditional, Williston on Contracts, § 1324; 39 Cyc. 1431.’ Farmers’ Phosphate Co. v. Gill, 69 Md. 537 , 16 A. 214 , 1 L.R.A. 767 ; Fast Bearing Co. v. Precision Development Co., 185 Md. 288, 309 , 44 A. 2d 735 ; Williston on Contracts, (Revised Edition), Sec. 1324, Corbin on Contracts, Sec. 974; Restatement of Contracts, Sec. 318(a); Wonalancet Co. v. Banfield, 116 Conn. 582 , 165 A. 785 ; Cory & Son, Ltd. v. City of London, 2 All. Eng. 584 (KBD); Goldwyn Distributing Corp. v. Brenneman, 3 Cir., 13 F”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘According to the contract, the seller is to complete improvements on the lot and make settlement before August 28, 1971, which is obviously impossible because to date, there is not even a building permit issued. * * * “‘Since it is impossible for your principal to comply with its contract to deliver the premises on or before August 28, 1971, we demand refund of the $1,000.00 deposit and declare the contract of August 28, 1971 [sic] breached and null and void.’ (emphasis added).” Id. at 571-572 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘A contracts with B in May, 1929, to have a specific vessel at B’s wharf in New York on July 1, 1929, ready to load and carry a cargo for B. At the time when the contract is made, the vessel is in Charleston, South Carolina. After making the contract A determines not to perform it, though he does not so state, and permits the vessel to remain at Charleston until after July 1. There is no breach until that day.’ (emphasis added).” String, supra at 579 .”
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.