Wong v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 619 · 1985
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Tiernan v. Devoe (1991), Hart v. Yamaha-Parts Distributors, Inc. (1986)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Sweat v. Miller Brewing Co. · Morrison v. Washington County · Florida Education Ass'n v. Atkinson · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Dye
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The construction and enforcement of settlement agreements are governed by principles of the state's general contracts law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“motion for summary judgment or motion to enforce settlement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tierran v. Devoe · Tiernan v. Devoe“'[a]ssent to the terms of a settlement agreement can be implied from the circumstances, and conduct inconsistent with a refusal of the terms raises a presumption of assent upon which others may rely.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Angle v. Comm'r
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.