Mortenson v. Scheer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2022
1 federal appellate · 7 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 T.S.I. Holdings, Inc. v. Jenkins · Wheelabrator Envirotech Operating Services Incorporated v. Massachusetts Laborers District Council Local · Anderson v. Bommer · DeCarlo & Doll, Inc. v. Dilozir · URI Cogeneration Partners, L.P. v. Board of Governors for Higher Education
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, after a contract is made, a party's performance is made impracticable without his fault by the occurrence of an event the non-occurrence of which was a basic assumption on which the contract was made, his duty to render that performance is discharged, unless the language or the circumstances indicate the contrary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rule of impracticability to exeuse performance is invoked when supervening circumstances render performance of one of the conditions of the contract impracticable.”
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.