McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• summarizing case law on illegal contracts and extending rule of nonenforcement to instances where contract performance was tainted by commercial bribery
• summarizing case law on illegal contracts and extending rule of nonenforcement to instances where contract performance was tainted by commercial bribery
• distinguishing illegalities which “are merely incidental to the contract sued on”
• even if contract entirely legal, public policy will deny its enforcement if its performance would practice fraud on third party
• \We are not working here with narrow questions of technical law. We are applying fundamental concepts of morality and fair dealing not to be weakened by exceptions.\
• “It is the settled law of this State (and probably of every other State

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Cited by

111 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kirschner v. KPMG LLP
  New York Court of Appeals· 2010-10-21· cited 216×
• Mallis v. Bankers Trust Co.
  Second Circuit· 1980-01-25· cited 183×
• Barker v. Kallash
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-07-05· cited 117×
• Denburg v. Flattau & Klimpl
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-11-18· cited 111×
• Oil & Gas Ventures-First 1958 Fund, Ltd. v. Kung
  S.D. New York· 1966-01-19· cited 79×
• Waldron v. British Petroleum Co.
  S.D. New York· 1964-06-23· cited 72×
• Castellotti v. Free
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-03-08· cited 65×
• Babylon Associates v. County of Suffolk
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1984-04-30· cited 62×
• Marvin B. Nathan and Natalie J. Nathan, D/B/A Marvin B. Nathan Co. v. Tenna Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-08-10· cited 58×
• Szerdahelyi v. Harris
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-02-13· cited 58×
• Shinn v. Edwin Yee, Ltd.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1976-08-24· cited 54×
• In Re Leasing Consultants Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1979-01-25· cited 52×
• Pharmaceutical Sales and Consulting Corp. v. JWS Delavau Co., Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 2000-07-21· cited 47×
• Contemporary Mission, Inc., Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Bonded Mailings, Inc., and Interstate Computer Services, Inc., Appellees-Cross-Appellants
  Second Circuit· 1982-02-01· cited 39×
• National Union Fire Insurance v. Robert Christopher Associates
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-05-18· cited 39×
• National Union Fire Insurance v. Williams
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1996-01-16· cited 30×
• City of New York v. 17 Vista Associates
  New York Court of Appeals· 1994-10-25· cited 28×
• El Gemayel v. Seaman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-12-20· cited 28×
• Palermo v. Rockefeller
  S.D. New York· 1971-01-15· cited 26×
• Wechsler v. Hunt Health Systems, Ltd.
  S.D. New York· 2002-08-27· cited 26×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Oscanyan v. Arms Co.
  Supreme Court· 1881-04-25· cited 566×
• Sirkin v. Fourteenth Street Store
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1908-02-14· cited 59×
• Messersmith v. American Fidelity Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1919-03-05· cited 22×
• De Persia v. Merchants Mutual Casualty Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1944-07-03· cited 15×

Other cases named McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.
  New York Supreme Court· 1955-12-30· cited 3×
• McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1958-09-25
• McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1959-03-26