Nelson v. Abraham’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 69 Cal. 2d 850 - Connor v. Great Western Savings & Loan Ass'n (1968), Ragsdale v. Haller (1986)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 145 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 20 Cal. 2d 751 - Universal Sales Corp. v. California Press Manufacturing Co. · Kirke La Shelle Co. v. Paul Armstrong Co. · 4 Cal. 2d 711 - Spier v. Lang · 43 Cal. App. 1 - Keyes v. Nims · 42 Cal. App. 81 - Menefee v. Oxnam
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A joint venture ... is an undertaking by two or more persons jointly to carry out a single business enterprise for profit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“extends beyond and bestows ownership and interest in the profits themselves”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in Disney to perform its contractual obligationthat is, to account for and pay Wolf the contingent compensation agreed upon in the contract. Every contract requires one party to repose an element of trust and confidence in the other to perform. For this reason, every contract contains an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, obligating the contracting parties to refrain from”
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.