McKinney v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Levenson v. Mobley (1987), Valdez v. Cillessen & Son, Inc. (1987)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 30 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 James Stewart & Co. v. Law · Hoge v. Farmers Market & Supply Co. of Las Cruces, Inc. · Walters Ex Rel. Walters v. Hastings · Hamill v. Maryland Cas. Co. · Permian Basin Investment Corporation v. Lloyd
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A third party who is not a promisee and who gave no consideration has an enforceable right by reason of a contract made by two others (1) if he is a creditor of the promisee or of some other person and the contract calls for a performance by the promisor in satisfaction of the obligation; or (2) if the promised performance will be of pecuniary benefit to him and the contract is so expressed as to give the promisor reason to know that such benefit is contemplated by the promisee as one of the motivating causes of his making the contract. A third party may be included within both of these provisions at once, but need not be. One who is included within neither of them has no right, even though performance will incidentally benefit him. Permian Basin, 63 N.M. at 7 , 312 P.2d at 537 (quoting Corbin on Contracts, Vo. 4, § 776, pp. 18,19).”
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.