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implied correlative obligation

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Definitions from Case Law

From 75 U.S. 276 - Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co. · 1868Most cited · 92 citing opinions

where the act to be done by one of the contracting parties can only be done upon something of a corresponding character being done by the opposite party, the law in such a case, if the contract is so framed that it binds the party contracting to do the act, will imply a correlative obligation on the part of the other party to do what is necessary on his part to enable the party so contracting to accomplish his undertaking and fulfil his contract

How often courts cite the case defining “implied correlative obligation”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “implied correlative obligation” — 92 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.