Masterson v. Sine’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 3 district · 287 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 424 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Continental Baking Co. v. Katz (1968), 213 Cal. App. 3d 465 - Price v. Wells Fargo Bank (1989)
74 federal appellate · 3 district · 287 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 45 Cal. 2d 474 - California Lettuce Growers, Inc. v. Union Sugar Co. · Barham v. Barham · Simmons v. California Institute of Technology · Hale v. Bohannon · Mitchill v. Lath
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 424 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence of oral collateral agreements should be excluded only when the fact finder is likely to be misled. The rule must therefore be based on the credibility of the evidence. One such standard, adopted by section 240(1) (b) of the Restatement of Contracts, permits proof of a collateral agreement if it ‘is such an agreement as might naturally be made as a separate agreement by parties situated as were the parties to the written contract. ’ ’ ’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The crucial issue in determining whether there has been an integration is whether the parties intended their writing to serve as the exclusive embodiment of their agreement.” (Italics added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a complete and final embodiment of the terms of an agreement,”
3 later decisions 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.