Fields v. Tillerson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2018
4 district · 3 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 Bay General Industries, Inc. v. Johnson · District of Columbia v. Campbell · Clay Properties, Inc. v. Washington Post Co. · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Massman Construction Co. · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Kemp Smith Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“parties to a contract entered into for the benefit of a third person may rescind, vary, or abrogate the contract as they see fit, without the assent of the third person, at any time before the contract is accepted, adopted, or acted upon by him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A third party to a contract may sue to enforce its provisions if the contracting parties intend the third party to benefit directly thereunder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such rescission deprives the third person of any rights under ... such contract.”
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.