29 Cal. 3d 345 - Bleecher v. Conte’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 488 - Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc. (1985), Chodos v. West Publishing Co. (2002)
15 federal appellate · 33 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. · Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. · Brown v. Superior Court · Ellis v. Mihelis · 52 Cal. 2d 154 - Rodriguez v. Barnett
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n every contract there is an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing that neither party will do anything which injures the right of the other to receive the benefits of the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding that the agreed counterperformance is not or would not have been specifically enforceable, specific performance may be compelled if: [¶] (a) Specific performance would otherwise be an appropriate remedy; and [¶] (b) The agreed counterperformance has been substantially performed or its concurrent or future performance is assured or, if the court deems necessary, can be secured to the satisfaction of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Second, if a contract is capable of two constructions, the court must choose that interpretation which will make the contract legally binding if it can be so construed without violating the intention of the parties.”
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.