Flack v. Laster’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 1010 Potomac Associates v. Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc. (1984), District of Columbia v. Merit Systems Protection Board (1985)
1 federal appellate · 8 district · 39 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 California Department of Human Resources Development v. Java · Ethel Javins v. First National Realty Corporation, Rudolph Saunders v. First National Realty Corporation, Stanley Gross v. First National Realty Corporation · Willard v. Tayloe · Peter Hagan v. Scottish Union National Insurance Company · Pate v. Robinson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, all contractual rights may be assigned, including the right to sue for enforcement of a claim. The right to assign is presumed, based upon principles of unhampered transferability of property rights and of business convenience. The effectiveness of an assignment does not normally depend upon the consent of the obligor unless the rights to be assigned involve the performance of unique personal services.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“concluded, certain, unambiguous, mutual, and upon valuable consideration; it must be perfectly fair in all its parts; free from any misrepresentation or misapprehension, fraud or mistake ... not an unconscionable or hard bargain; and its performance not oppressive upon the defendant; and finally, it must be capable of specific execution through a decree of this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spencer v. Spencer“all contractual rights may be assigned, including the right to sue for enforcement of a claim,”
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.