MOONY v. Craddock’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2015
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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 26 Wis. 2d 683 - Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc. · Lee v. Durango Music · Goodman v. Dicker · Peoples National Bank v. Linebarger Construction Co. · Carlson v. Bain
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance of a definite and substantial character on the part of the promisee and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n order to invoke the remedy authorized by [the promissory estoppel] doctrine, it is not necessary to establish mutual agreement by the parties on all essential terms of a contract”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“should be applied to prevent injustice where as here, a promise was made which the promisor should reasonably have expected would induce action or forbearance of a material character and the promise in fact induced such action or forbearance. 4”
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.