Thacker v. American Foundry’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably J. C. Millett Co. v. Park & Tilford Distillers Corp. (1954), Pittman v. Larson Distributing Co. (1986)
8 federal appellate · 29 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 29 Cal. 2d 34 - Speegle v. Board of Fire Underwriters · Estate of Yoell · 57 Cal. App. 2d 772 - Millsap v. National Funding Corp. · Todd v. Superior Court of San Francisco · Teachout v. Bogy
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘' The record is silent as to. any such evidence and the exception has not been, negatived. Under such conditions the trial judge was justified in believing the terms of plaintiff’s employment were in consonance with the minimum of those holding similar positions, if any, in defendant’s business organization or those within the local area on the prescribed date. Such being the case the approval of the commissioner was not required as a prerequisite to defendant’s obligation to pay the amount found by the evidence to be due plaintiff as compensation for his services so rendered. #. * * % “If the method provided for carrying into effect the principal purpose of an agreement has been executed and accepted by both parties, and the whole contract in itself is valid, it will not be permitted to fall because of any supposed invalidity attached to the means adopted. * * * Since nothing appears on the face of the instrument itself indicating its invalidity the burden was upon the defendant to establish his defense”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Provided, however, That if the salary rates in question are not in excess of the minimum of those prevailing for similar job classifications within his own organization or if no such rates are available, then within the local area on September 15, 1942, the approval of the Commissioner is not required”.”
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.