Rialto Theatre, Inc. v. Commonwealth Theatres, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Duhaime v. American Reserve Life Insurance (1986), Long v. Laramie County Community College District (1988)
5 federal appellate · 25 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 Montana v. United States · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Cromwell v. County of Sac · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By its clear and unambiguous language, this portion of the lease agreement is merely an agreement to agree in the future.... In this case, the parties' agreement provides no guidance as to the terms which are to be enforced. Unless the essential terms of such a future agreement are defined with reasonable certainty, there is no contract for the court to enforce.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““incorporate a universal precept of common-law jurisprudence to the effect that a ‘right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction ... cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the same parties or their privies.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Osborn v. Manning · Osborn v. Kilts“is an extreme remedy and the court should (proceed with caution and deliberation before exercising the remedy'”
2 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.