Covington v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Davidson & Jones Development Co. v. Elmore Development Co. (1991), TSC Industries, Inc. v. Tomlin (1987)
5 federal appellate · 17 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 V. L. Nicholson Co. v. Transcon Investment & Financial Ltd. · Strickland v. City of Lawrenceburg · 41 Tenn. App. 347 - Real Estate Management, Inc. v. Giles · Hall v. Weeks · Smith v. Dixon
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n event, not certain to occur, which must occur, unless its non-occurrence is excused, before performance under a contract becomes due.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every contract imposes upon each party a duty of good faith and fair dealing in its performance and enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A conditional contract is a contract whose very existence and performance depends upon the happening of some contingency or condition expressly stated therein ...”
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.