Goodman v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2003
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Webster Lumber Co. v. Lincoln · Strong & Trowbridge Co. v. H. Baars & Co. · Consolidated Development & Engineering Corp. v. Ortega Co. · 237 So. 2d 236 - Bryan and Sons Corp. v. Klefstad · Winnemucca Water & Light Co. v. Model Gas Engine Works
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a controversy resolves itself into a situation where one of the parties meant and intended one thing and the other meant and intended another, it is manifest that the first element of a contract, the mutual meeting of the minds of the parties, is lacking and there is no contract. Williston, in his work on contracts, proclaims the. general rule to be that where a phrase of a contract is reasonably capable of different interpretations, and is in fact differently understood, there is no contract.”
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.