Forsyth v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2016
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 27 Utah 2d 286 - Del Porto v. Nicolo · 16 Utah 2d 401 - Wallace v. Build, Inc. · Timpanogos Highlands, Inc. v. Harper · 11 Utah 2d 416 - Morrison v. Walker Bank & Trust Company · 21 Utah 2d 157 - Santi v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co.
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.
“[t]he term “abandonment” in the sense involved here means the intentional relinquishment of one’s rights in the contract; and in order to nullify such rights, there must be a clear and unequivocal showing of such abandonment. Where there is dispute as to whether this has occurred, it is usually a question of fact, to be determined from the circumstances of the particular case, which include not only nonperformance, but also expressions of intent and other actions of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If it is concluded that there was no abandonment, then the contract is still in force and the contractual provisions which pertain to attorney’s fees apply.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he general principle of the law of agency is that principals are bound by the acts of their agents which are within the apparent scope of the authority of the agent ....”
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.