King v. Driscoll’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Harrison v. NetCentric Corp. (2001), Ayash v. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2005)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 52 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 Soberon v. United States · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Fortune v. National Cash Register Co. · White v. Murtha · Gram v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and a termination not made in good faith constitutes a breach of the contract.”
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.