Pacific Coast Engineering Co. v. Merritt-chapman & Scott Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 889 · 1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Mobley v. New York Life Insurance · Gold Mining & Water Co. v. Swinerton · Steelduct Co. v. Henger-Seltzer Co. · Kimel v. Missouri State Life Ins. · 5 Cal. App. 2d 738 - Atkinson v. District Bond 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the two contracting parties differ as to the interpretation of the contract or as to its legal effects, an offer to perform in accordance with his own interpretation made by one of the parties is not in itself an anticipatory breach. In order to constitute such a breach, the offer must be accompanied by a clear manifestation of intention not to perform in accordance with any other interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when there is a disagreement as to the meaning of terms in a contract, one party’s offer to perform in accordance with his interpretation is not itself an anticipatory breach.... If the offer appears to be made in the good faith belief that the offeror’s interpretation is correct, that will be evidence of his continued adherence to the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“persistently demanded an unwarranted condition precedent to its required performance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ricketts v. Adamson
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.