Ed Schory & Sons, Inc. v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 273 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Galmish v. Cicchini (2000), Williams v. Aetna Finance Co. (1998)
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 214 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 Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad · Kham & Nate's Shoes No. 2, Inc. v. First Bank of Whiting · Haddon View Investment Co. v. Coopers · In re Termination of Employment of Pratt · Marion Production Credit Ass'n v. Cochran
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 273 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a compact reference to an implied undertaking not to take opportunistic advantage in a way that could have not been contemplated at the time of drafting, and which therefore was not resolved explicitly by the parties.'”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“an oral agreement cannot be enforced in preference to a signed writing which pertains to exactly the same subject matter, yet has different terms.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“in which special confidence and trust is reposed in the integrity and fidelity of another and there is a resulting position of superiority or influence, acquired by virtue of this special trust.”
11 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.