Costello v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hecla Mining Co. v. New Hampshire Insurance Co. · Pepcol Manufacturing Co. v. Denver Union Corp. · Buckley Bros. Motors, Inc. v. Gran Prix Imports, Inc. · Polemi v. Wells · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Canam Steel Corp.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the parties to a bargain sufficiently defined to be a contract have not agreed with respect to a term which is essential to a determination of their rights and duties, a term which is reasonable in the cireumstances is supplied by the court.”
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.