Citizens National Bank v. Vitt’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.2d 541 · 1966
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2003
9 federal appellate · 4 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 Civil Aeronautics Board v. Summerfield · Guerini Stone Co. v. P. J. Carlin Construction Co. · Quinn v. Dupree · Vanadium Corp. v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland · Lichter v. Mellon-Stuart Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Once a subcontractor has established a breach of contract by the prime, he can recover the value of the work he has done or the service he has rendered. In other words, he is entitled to a quantum meruit.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““in every contract between a contractor and a subcontractor, an'lmplied promise exists on the part of the contractor that he will do nothing to prevent, interfere or hinder the subcontractor in his performance or increase the cost thereof’... [w]henever the cooperation of a promisee is necessary for the performance of a contract, there is an implied condition of the contract that the cooperation will be given.”
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.