Mogensen v. Martz’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2007
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Freigy v. Gargaro Company, Inc. · 154 Ind. App. 283 - Standard Land Corporation of Indiana v. Bogardus · 114 Ind. App. 437 - Jackman Cigar Manufacturing Co. v. John Berger & Son Co. · 123 Ind. App. 438 - Clark v. Corbly · 178 Ind. App. 200 - Fiat Distributors, Inc. v. Hidbrader
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A clear intent by the actual parties to the contract to benefit the third party; (2) A duty imposed on one of the contracting parties in favor of the third party; and (3) Performance of the contract terms is necessary to render the third party a direct benefit intended by the parties to the contract.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“no specific property owner is named in the contract, nor are property owners as a class named.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luhnow v. Horn“Third party beneficiaries may directly enforce a contract in Indiana.”
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.