Hennigan v. Chargers Football Co.’s Empirical Analysis
431 F.2d 308 · 1970
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably Jon-T Chemicals, Inc. v. Freeport Chemical Co. (1983), Lee v. Hunt H L (1980)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Sosa · Woods v. Sims · Lighting Fixture & Electric Supply Co. v. Continental Insurance · General American Indemnity Company v. Pepper
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A Texas court will deem a contract ambiguous if the contract, after estab lished rules of interpretation have been applied to its language, remains reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning. If the contract is not reasonably susceptible to more than one meaning, the effect to be given it will be determined, in the usual case, from the contract language alone, without resort to other evidence or to consideration of the conduct of the parties in attempting to comply with its terms or with the terms of similar previous agreements.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Player is injured in the performance of his services under this contract . the Club will . . . continue, during the term of this contract, to pay Player his salary . . . if and so long as it is the opinion of the Club Physician that Player, because of such injury, is unable to perform the services required of him by this contract (emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t follows that Hennigan was not entitled to compensation for the 1967 football season from the Chargers. He suffered no injury while in the performance of any services required of him after the option was exercised. Consequently, he is not entitled to payment under paragraph 15 (the injury provision). 431 F.2d at 317-318 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.