Transamerica Equipment Leasing Corp. v. Union Bank’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 273 · 1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2008
11 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 Lahaina-Maui Corp. v. Tau Tet Hew
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here an essential element is reserved for future agreement of both parties, a legal obligation cannot result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The most that appears is an unenforceable agreement to make an agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. H Knight
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.