Drake v. Wickwire’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2018
12 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 21 Cal. 3d 303 - Kirsch v. Duryea · Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Apokedak · Neal-Cooper Grain Co. v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. · Kendall v. State, Division of Corrections · Drake v. Hosley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party's language must be sufficiently positive to be reasonably interpreted to mean that the party will not or cannot perform.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“except on conditions which go beyond the contract,”
2 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.