Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Scharf v. BMG Corp. (1985), Maughan v. Maughan (1989)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 76 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 54 Cal. 2d 264 - Wilson v. Wilson · 7 Utah 2d 163 - Ephraim Theatre Company v. Hawk · Steele v. Vanderslice · 6 Utah 2d 98 - Continental Bank and Trust Company v. Bybee · 32 Colo. App. 276 - Zambruk v. Perlmutter 3rd Generation Builders, Inc.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a provision for payment of attorney's fees in a contract includes attorney's fees incurred by the prevailing party on appeal as well as at trial, if the action is brought to enforce the contract.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] provision for payment of attorney[] fees in a contract includes attorney[] fees incurred by the prevailing party on appeal. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The buyer and seller each agree that should they default in any of the covenants or agreements contained herein, that [sic] the defaulting party shall pay all costs and expenses, including a reasonable attorney’s fee, which may arise or accrue from enforcing this agreement.”
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.