Capek v. Mendelson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2015
1 district · 1 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 Bonanno v. United States · Teodore Dorotee Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson, Anthony C. Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson · Fairfax Countywide Citizens Ass'n v. County of Fairfax · Tiernan v. Devoe · Mid-South Towing Co. v. Har-Win, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a) the extent to which the injured party will be deprived of the benefit which he reasonably expected; b) the extent to which the injured party can be adequately compensated for that part of that benefit of which he will reasonably be deprived; c) the extent to which the party failing to perform will suffer forfeiture; d) the likelihood that the party filing to perform or offer to perform will cure his failure, taking account of all the circumstances including any reasonable assurances; e) the extent to which the behavior of the party failing to perform or offer to perform comports with standards of good faith and fair dealing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a contract is formed even though they intend to adopt a formal document with additional terms at a later date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kroupa v. Kroupa
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.