81 Cal. App. 356 - Carl v. Eade’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 1992
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Wolf v. Marsh · Bagley v. Cohen · Crane v. McCormick · Poirier v. Gravel · Carter v. Rhodes
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who voluntarily prevents the performance of some act upon which an obligation depends will be precluded from setting up such nonperformance as a defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ 'A party to a contract cannot take advantage of his own act or omission to escape liability thereon . . . where he prevents a fulfillment of a condition precedent, or its performance by the adverse party, he cannot rely on such condition to defeat his liability. ’ ’ ’”
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.