Knight v. Sharif’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 516 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Street v. Jc Bradford & Company (1989), Lam v. University of Hawai'i (1994)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Thomas v. Capital Security Services, Inc. · Rg Group Inc Rg v. Horn & Hardart Company
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While Sharif argues vociferously, he submits no additional facts, nor does Sharif provide a plausible interpretation [of the evidence submitted by the moving party, ... which has] put before the Court a full and adequately supported chronology of the facts ... Sharif presents no reasons for contesting these facts or any factual support for such a contest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Parties that wish to be bound only upon execution of a formal document agree to negotiation in that manner because they wish to create a writing that is satisfactory to both sides in every respect. It is not for the Court to determine retrospectively that at some point in the evolution of a formal document that the changes being discussed are so “minor” or “technical” that the contract [letter of intent] was binding despite the parties’ unwillingness to have it executed and delivered. For the Court to do so would deprive the parties of their right to enter into only the exact contract they desired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n order for a writing to be enforceable as a contract, agreement must be expressed as to all essential terms. If the document or contract that the parties agree to make is to contain any material term that is not already agreed on, no contract has yet been made; and the so-called contract to make a contract is not a contract at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.