Richards Construction Co. v. Air Conditioning Co. of Hawaii’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.2d 410 · 1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2005
9 federal appellate · 2 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 51 Cal. 2d 409 - Drennan v. Star Paving Co. · James Baird Co. v. Gimbel Bros., Inc. · Lingenfelder v. Wainwright Brewing Co. · Alaska Packers' Ass'n v. Domenico
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in substance, was a mutual surrender, by the parties, of their antithetical positions, in exchange for a new, formally executed, complete and binding contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Comm'r“Generally speaking, a contract to settle a genuine dispute is binding; the law favors such contracts; this was such a contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Comm'r
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.