Sympson v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2022
11 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 Lynum v. State of Illinois · Fletcher v. Krise · 99 Cal. App. 2d 572 - Hardy v. San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce · Royden v. Ardoin · Kimmie v. Terminal Railroad Assn.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This contract ... clearly calls for personal services, and involves the relation of personal confidence. The law is well settled that a contract is not assignable without the consent of both parties where the personal acts and qualities of one of the parties form a material and ingredient part of the contract. In such a case, that is, where the character, ability, and credit of the party dealt with obviously is of so muck importance, one has a right to select and determine with whom one will contract, and cannot have another person thrust upon him without his consent.”
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.