Lewis v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2013
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad · Allen v. Allen · North American Uranium, Inc. v. Johnston · United States v. Schaeffer · 76 Wash. 2d 357 - Northern State Construction Co. v. Robbins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A written document, unconditional on its face and fully executed, can be shown by oral testimony to have been delivered subject to a condition precedent. As long as the condition has not occurred, so they say, no contract has been made. Therefore, oral proof of the conditional delivery is admissible in spite of the face of the document to the contrary." 83 Corbin on Contracts, § 589, pp. 580-582 (1960)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Finnell“'[A] condition precedent may not be implied when the same might have been foreseen and provided against by express agreement.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Finnell“Conditions precedent are not a favorite of the law and will not be read into a contract by implication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Finnell
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.