Hershon v. Hellman Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2019
5 district · 8 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 Nyhus v. Travel Management Corp. · Auxier v. Kraisel · Egan v. McNamara · Edison v. Scott
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he parties to a contract are free to modify that contract by mutual consent. In order to be valid, however, the modification must possess the same' elements of consideration as necessary for normal contract formation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“containing a term inconsistent with a term of an earlier contract between the same parties regarding the same subject matter [is] interpreted to rescind the inconsistent term in the earlier contract.”
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.