Topik v. Thurber’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2022
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Ashton v. Ashton · Sugarhouse Finance Co. v. Anderson · Cady v. Johnson · Insley Manufacturing Corp. v. Draper Bank & Trust
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he doctrine of promissory estoppel has application when a promise is made which can reasonably be expected to induce action or forbearance and which in fact induces action or forbearance from which a detriment is suffered.”
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.