Wolf v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 11 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Schmitz v. Smentowski (1990), Mason v. Funderburk (1969)
9 federal appellate · 11 district · 43 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 18 Cal. 2d 33 - Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier · Royal Realty Co. v. Levin · 124 Cal. App. 2d 229 - Augustine v. Trucco · Snowden v. Sorensen · Ringler v. Ruby
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ontracting with a party with knowledge of a prior inconsistent contract between that party and another is not according to the better view, the equivalent of inducement or persuasion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the contract would otherwise have been performed, and that it was breached and abandoned by reason of the defendant's wrongful act and that such act was the moving cause thereof.”
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.